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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464358403321

Autore

Morash Chris <1963->

Titolo

Mapping Irish theatre : theories of space and place / / Chris Morash and Shaun Richards [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-72084-2

1-139-89296-7

1-107-72793-6

1-107-73029-5

1-107-73204-2

1-107-72853-3

1-107-72392-2

1-139-60030-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

792.09417/0904

Soggetti

Theater - Ireland - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Making space -- 2. Staging place -- 3. Spaces of modernity and modernism -- 4. The calamity of yesterday -- 5. The fluorescence of place -- 6. Theatre of the world -- 7. Theatre of the street -- Conclusion: spectral spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and Yi-Fu Tuan, Mapping Irish Theatre argues that theatre is 'a machine for making place from space'. Concentrating on Irish theatre, the book investigates how this Irish 'sense of place' was both produced by, and produced, the remarkable work of the Irish Revival, before considering what happens when this spatial formation begins to fade. Exploring more recent site-specific and place-specific theatre alongside canonical works of Irish theatre by playwrights including J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, the study proposes an original theory of theatrical space and theatrical identification, whose application extends beyond Irish



theatre, and will be useful for all theatre scholars.