A collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been a part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today.
This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today. Inside there are provocative chapters from scholars, theatre producers, and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast. Cathleen Ni Houlihan will never be the same!
CONTENTS: Eibhear Walshe: Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde on the Irish
Stage and Screen Kathryn Conrad: The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades,
Performance, and the Public in Belfast Mįria Kurdi: Lesbian Versions of the
Female Biography Play: Emma Donoghues I know My Own Heart and Ladies and
Gentlemen Fintan Walsh: Touching, Feeling, Cross-dressing: On the
Affectivity of Queer Performance. Or, What Makes Panti Fabulous Michael
Patrick Lapointe: Edward Martyns Theatrical Hieratic Homoeroticism Brian
Merriman: The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Niall Rea:
Sexuality and Dysfuntional City: Queering Segregated Space Samuele Grassi:
Gender as Performance in the Works of Glasshouse Producions, Dublin Todd
Barry: Queer Wanderers, Queer Spaces: Dramatic Devices for Re-imagining
Ireland Charlotte McIvor: «Crying» on «Pluto»: Queering the «Irish
Question» for Global Film Audiences Kathleen A. Heininge: Living by the
Code: Authority in The Gay Detective David Cregan: «Theres Nothing Queer
Here»: The Abbey Theatre and the Problem of Practice.
