Political Acts : Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012 /
Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid-twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women's experiences a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : setting the scene
- part one. Theatre, gender, and politics, 1921-1979
- 1. Nation, conflict, and the politics of feminism
- 2. Theatre and state censorship
- 3. Raising the curtain : Alice Milligan, Patricia O'Connor, and Mary O'Malley
- part two. Troubles and the stage, 1980-1997
- 4. Community engagement : the Charabanc Theatre Company
- 5. Political drama and controversy : DubbelJoint and the JustUs Community Theatre Company
- part three. the post-agreement North, 1998-2012
- 6. Borderlands and the rural North : Abbie Spallen
- 7. The Protestant urban underclass : Stacey Gregg and Rosemary Jenkinson
- 8. Experimental theatre and queer dramaturgy : Shannon Yee
- Conclusion : making strides.


