This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
Inhoudsopgave
1. Introduction: Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland
2. Activism, Drag and Solo Performance
3. Reparative Therapies and Political Performers
4. Transforming Shame and Testimonial Performance
5. Intergenerational Moves and Documentary Theatre
6. Sex, Class and the City: Site-Specific Roots and Routes
7. Vertiginous Loss, Love and Belonging on the National Stage
Afterword: Reeling-Feeling
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Fintan Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Theatre. Recent publications include
Theatre & Therapy (2013),
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (2010), and the edited collection
‘That Was Us’: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (2013). He is Associate Editor of
Theatre Research International.
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