Overview

The historiography of Irish theatre has largely been dependent on in-depth studies of the play-text as the definitive primary source. This volume explores the processes of engaging with the documented and undocumented record of Irish theatre and broadens the concept of evidential study of performance through the use of increasingly diverse sources. The archive is regarded here as a broad repository of evidence including annotated scripts, photographs, correspondence, administrative documents, recordings and other remnants of the mechanics of producing theatre. It is an invaluable resource for scholars and artists in interrogating Ireland’s performance history. This collection brings together key thinkers, scholars and practitioners who engage with the archive of Irish theatre and performance in terms of its creation, management and scholarly as well as artistic interpretation. New technological advances and mass digitization allow for new interventions in this field. The essays gathered here present new critical thought and detailed case studies from archivists, theatre scholars, historians and artists, each working in different ways to uncover and reconstruct the past practice of Irish performance through new means.

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Author:   Eamon Maher ,  Barry Houlihan
Publisher:   Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint:   Peter Lang Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   87
Weight:   0.434kg
ISBN:  

9781787073722

ISBN 10:   1787073726
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   12 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Barry Houlihan: Introduction: The Potential of the Archive – Cillian Joy/Tricia O’Beirne: The Abbey Theatre Minute Book Transcription Project: Digitally Reading the Administrative Record of Irish Theatre –Ciara Conway: Staging Absence for Digital Historiography: Feminist Irish Theatre – Martin Bradley/John Cox: The Abbey Theatre Archive Digitisation Project at NUI Galway: Delivering Mass Digitisation of a Multimedia Archive with Positive Academic and Library Impact – Freya Clare Smith/Hugh Denard: Digitally Re-envisioning Lost Theatre Spaces: Dublin’s Theatre Royal – Barry Houlihan: «Creatures of his Imagination»: The Becoming of Plays and the Archive of Thomas Kilroy – Emer McHugh: A Shared Language: Placing and Displacing Shakespeare in the Irish National Theatrical Repertoire – Ruud van den Beuken: «Three cheers for the Descendancy!»: Middle-Class Dreams and (Dis)illusions in Mary Manning’s Happy Family (1934) – Brenda Donohue: Women and the Archive: What Vision of the Present Will Be Preserved for the Future? – Anne Etienne: «I Remember»; «I Forget»; «I Can’t Forget»: Oral History, the Archive and Remembering Corcadorca’s The Merchant of Venice – Conor O’Malley: Performing the Troubles at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 1969–1981 – Kieran Cronin/Elizabeth Howard: Identity, Legacy and the Official: Power Relations of the Documented and Undocumented in the Red Kettle Theatre Company Archive – Colin Murphy: Sometimes the Archive Lies – David Clare: Compiling a New Composite Draft of J. M. Synge’s When the Moon Has Set.

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Barry Houlihan is an archivist at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, and teaches Irish theatre history at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway. He holds a PhD on Irish theatre and social engagement. His research interests include theatre historiography, political and social theatre, archival and cultural theory and digital humanities. He is also a project team member of the Abbey Theatre and Gate Theatre Digital Archive Projects.

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