The Theatre Of Tom Murphy
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Author | : Nicholas Grene |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472568117 |
Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the Druid Theatre Company, served to underline his continuing appeal and importance. This is the first full scale academic study devoted to his theatre, providing an overview of all his work, with a detailed reading of his most significant texts. His powerful and searchingly honest engagement with Irish history and society is reflected in the violent Whistle in the Dark, the epic Famine (1968), the often hilarious Conversations on a Homecoming (1985) and the darkly Chekhovian The House (2000). Folklore and myth figure more prominently in the spiritual drama of The Sanctuary Lamp (1975), the Faustian Gigli Concert (1983) and the women's stories of Bailegangaire (1985). The range and reach of Murphy's theatre is demonstrated in this informed reading, supported by key interviews with the playwright himself and his most important theatrical and critical interpreters.
Author | : Nicholas Grene |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472568125 |
Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the Druid Theatre Company, served to underline his continuing appeal and importance. This is the first full scale academic study devoted to his theatre, providing an overview of all his work, with a detailed reading of his most significant texts. His powerful and searchingly honest engagement with Irish history and society is reflected in the violent Whistle in the Dark, the epic Famine (1968), the often hilarious Conversations on a Homecoming (1985) and the darkly Chekhovian The House (2000). Folklore and myth figure more prominently in the spiritual drama of The Sanctuary Lamp (1975), the Faustian Gigli Concert (1983) and the women's stories of Bailegangaire (1985). The range and reach of Murphy's theatre is demonstrated in this informed reading, supported by key interviews with the playwright himself and his most important theatrical and critical interpreters.
Author | : Thomas Murphy |
Publisher | : Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
"A Whistle in the Dark" depicts the reunion of an Irish family in Coventy. A picture of Irishmen "over here" asserting themselves in one of England's post-war dream cities.
Author | : Canadian Stage Theatre Archives (University of Guelph) |
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Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Eamonn Jordan |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780953425716 |
Essays on contemporary Irish theatre
Author | : Matthew Wilson Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190644087 |
The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system.
Author | : Thomas Murphy |
Publisher | : Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2000-10-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Thomas Murphy |
Publisher | : Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Haunting new play from Ireland's leading dramatist.
Author | : Graham Price |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3319933450 |
This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to Ireland's theatrical canon is equal to that of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett. The study examines key areas of the Wildean aesthetic: his aestheticizing of experience via language and self-conscious performance; the notion of the dandy in Wildean texts and how such a figure is engaged with in today's dramas; and how his contribution to the concept of a ‘verbal theatre’ has influenced his dramatic successors. It is of particular pertinence to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of Irish drama and Irish literature, and for those interested in the work of Oscar Wilde, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness. okokpoj
Author | : Nicholas Grene |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191016349 |
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, and looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting, and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the contributors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.