Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007

ISBN-13: 9781788749039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 388 str.

Patrick Lonergran; Nicholas Grene; Lilian Chambers

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With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Dublin Theatre Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad.

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Loughlin Deegan: Preface--Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan: Introduction: the Festival at Fifty--Thomas Kilroy: PART ONE: ESSAYS -- A Playwright's Festival -- Lionel Pilkington: Theatre, Sexuality, and the State: Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957 -- Sara Keating: Irish Language Theatre at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Emilie Pine: Leonard's Progress: Hugh Leonard at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Shaun Richards: Subjects of 'the machinery of citizenship': The Death and Resurrection of Mr Rocheand The Gentle Island at the Dublin Theatre Festival - Interactions -- West Meets East: Russian Productions at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2006--Ros Dixon: Tom Murphy's The Sanctuary Lamp at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1975 and 2001 -- Alexandra Poulain: Patrick Mason: A Director's Festival Golden Fish -- Cathy Leeney: In-dependency: Rough Magic and the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Tanya Dean: Festivals National and International:The Beckett Festival -- John P. Harrington: From Ex Libris to Ex Machina - Two Shakespearean Case Studies at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Carmen Szabó: An Antipodean Epic: Cloudstreet at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Peter Kuch: 'Bogland Parodies': The Midlands Setting in Marina Carr and Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre -- Lisa Fitzpatrick: The Dublin Theatre Festival: Social and Cultural Contexts -- Fintan O'Toole: PART TWO: MEMOIRS AND PRODUCTIONS -- An Tóstal and the First Dublin Theatre Festival: a Personal Memoir -- Christopher Fitz-Simon: Production History Part One: 1957-1970 -- Dublin Theatre Festival: 1984-1989 -- Lewis Clohessy: Production History Part Two: 1971-1985 -- 'Present Tense' or 'It shouldn't happen to a festival programmer!' -- David Grant: Production History Part Three: 1986-1994 -- Dublin Theatre Festival in the 1990s -- Tony O'Dálaigh: Production History Part Four: 1995-2008 -- Dublin Theatre Festival in the Twenty-First Century -- Fergus Linehan: Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.