The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

1. Introductions/Orientations.- 2. The Mainstream: Problematising and Theorising; Shaun Richards.- 3. The Theatre Royal, Dublin; Conor Doyle.- 4. The Politics of Performance: Theatre in and About Northern Ireland; Lisa Fitzpatrick.- 5. The Literary Tradition in the History of Modern Irish Drama; Christopher Murray.- 6. #WakingTheFeminists; Carole Quigley.- 7. Live Art in Ireland; Una Mannion.- 8. Gestures of Resistance: Dance in 1990s Ireland; Finola Cronin.- 9. Contemporary Theatre in Irish Language; Mairtin Coilfeir.- 10. Theatre for Young Audiences in Ireland; Tom Maguire.- 11. Performance in the Community: Amateur Drama and Community Theatre; Elizabeth Howard.- 12. Performing Politics: Queer Theatre in Ireland, 1968-2017; J. Paul Halferty.- 13. Long Flame in the Hideous Gale: The Politics of Popular Irish Performance, 1950-2000; Susanne Colleary.- 14. Other Theatres; Christopher Collins.- 15. Independent Theatre and New Work; Gavin Kostick.- 16. Funding, Sponsorship and Touring; Shelley Troupe.- 17. New Century Theatre Companies; Cormac O'Brien.- 18. The Joyful Mysteries of Comedy; Bernard Farrell.- 19. Lambert Theatre and Puppetry Redefined; John McCormick.- 20. Scenic Transitions: From Drama to Experimental Practices in Irish Theatre; Noelia Ruiz.- 21. Key Moments and Relationships: Working with Pat Kinevane; Jim Culleton.- 22. Irish Cinema and Theatre; Ruth Barton.- 23. Actor Training Ireland since 1965; Rhona Trench.- 24. Ireland: A Designer's Theatre; Siobhan O'Gorman.- 25. Props at the Abbey; Eimer Murphy.- 26. Ireland: An Actor's Theatre; Bernadette Sweeney.- 27. The Figurative Artist: UNA'N'ANU; Una Kavanagh.- 28. Ireland: A Director's Theatre; Ian R. Walsh.- 29. In the wake of Olwen Fouere's riverrun ; Kellie Hughes.- 30. Ireland: A Writer's Theatre; Nicholas Grene.- 31. The Making of Mainstream ; Rosaleen McDonagh.- 32. Participatory Performance: Spaces of Creative Negotiation; Kate McCarthy and Una Kealy.- 33. Other Spaces (Non-Theatre Spaces); Charlotte McIvor.- 34. Irish Plays in Other Places; Kevin Wallace.- 35. Adaptation and Transformation; Anne Fogarty.- 36. Circuitous Pathways: Marina Carr's Labyrinth of Feminist Form in the US World Premiere of Phaedra Backwards ; Melissa Sihra.- 37. Being Intercultural in Irish Theatre and Performance; Cathy Leeney.- 38. Once Upon a Time in the Life of Arambe: A Personal Reflection; Bisi Adigun.- 39. Intercultural Arrivals and Encounters with Trauma in Contemporary Irish Drama; Eva Urban.- 40. Dramaturgical Complicity: Representing Trauma in Brokentalkers' Blue Boy; Kate Donoghue.- 41. Between the City and the Village: Liminal Spaces and Ambivalent Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre; Brian Devaney.- 42. Verse in Twenty-First Century Irish Theatre; Kasia Lech.- 43. The Gate Theatre on the Road: O'Casey, Pinter and Friel; Maria Kurdi.- 44. Festivals and Curation; Willie White.- 45. Interart Relations and Self-reflexivity in Contemporary Irish Drama; Csilla Bertha.- 46. "Contempt of Flesh": adventures in the uncanny valley; Ashley Taggart.- 47. The Dance of Affect in Contemporary Irish Dance Theatre; Aoife McGrath.- 48. Artistic Vision and Regional Resistance: The Gods Are Angry, Miss Kerr and the Red Kettle Theatre Company; Richard Hayes and Una Kealy.- 49. Cultural Materialism and a Class Consciousness?; Erica Meyers.- 50. The Utilisation of Domestic Space in the Reflection of Economic Struggles of Modern Living in Conor McPherson's New Translation of The Nest ; Maha Alatawi.- 51. Audiences: Immersive and Participatory; Ciara L. Murphy.- 52. Sounding Affect in Pan Pan Theatre's Adaptation of All That Fall ; Angela Butler.- 53. Music in Irish Theatre: the sound of the people; Ciara Fleming.- 54. Sightings of Comic Dexterity; Eric Weitz.- 55. Acts of Remembering in Irish Theatre; Emilie Pine.- 56. Staging a Response: No Escape and the rise of documentary theatre in Ireland; Luke Lamont.- 57. Children of the Revolution: 1916-2016; James Moran.- 58. Post-femin