Ibsen and Chekov on the Irish Stage

ISBN-13: 9781788747561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Ros Dixon;Irina Ruppo Malone

Opis

This work connects productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov with adaptations made by contemporary Irish playwrights, demonstrating the significance of international influence for the national canon.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Tore Rem: Is There a Norwegian Ibsen? Ibsen at Home and Abroad - Christopher Murray: Shaw's Ibsen and the Idea of an Irish Theatre - Christopher Morash: Ibsen in Inish: Lennox Robinson, Ibsen, and the Censorship of Publications Act - Irina Ruppo Malone: Denis Johnston's Ibsen and Post-Revivalist Ireland - Patrick Burke: Artists and Users in the Later Plays of Ibsen and Friel - Helen Heusner Lojek: Frank McGuinness's «Only Ibsen of the Western World» - Cynthia Marsh: Making Foreign Theatre or Making Theatre Foreign - Robert Tracy: Rehearsing the 1916 Rising: Theatre Politics and Political Theatre - Nicholas Grene: Chekhov and the Irish Big House - Ros Dixon: «All of Ireland is Our Orchard»: Maria Knebel's Production of The Cherry Orchard at the Abbey in 1968 - Zsuzsa Csiskai: Tom Murphy's The Cherry Orchard in the Context of Irish Rewritings of Chekhov.

O autorze

Irina Ruppo Malone is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Trinity College Dublin, and the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she teaches courses on Irish and European drama, James Joyce, and contemporary Irish fiction. She is the author of Ibsen and the Irish Revival (2010).