Staging Thought

Contents: Thomas Kilroy: Foreword - Rhona Trench: Introduction - Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice - Frank Conway: The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Rhona Trench: A Blend of Irish and European Theatre Process and Practice: Blue Raincoat Theatre Company's Production of W.B. Yeats's The Cat and the Moon (1926) - Carmen Szabo: Place and Non-Place: Discussing Physicality and Story in Barabbas Theatre Company's Circus (2007) - Agnes Pallai: Cultural Differences in Staging Brian Friel's Translations in Romania - Enrica Cerquoni: Ways of Seeing and the Womb-Theatre: Theatrical Space and Scenic Presentation in Marina Carr's Ariel - Virginie Privas-Bréauté: The Actor's Body as a Heterotopic Language in Bill Morrison's The Marriage - Caoileann Thompson: Irish Theatre Studies in the Performance Age: The Case of Stewart Parker - Eamonn Jordan: 'It Would Never Happen On The Waltons': Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce - Eric Weitz: Sleight of Frame: Exploitations of Comic Feeling by Two Irish Playwrights - Suzanne Colleary: 'God's Comic': Narratives of Performed Identity of Irish Stand-Up Comedian Tommy Tiernan - Fiona Fearon: Decoding the Audience: Enda Walsh's Chatroom (2008) - Mary Caulfield: Fashion Advice: Constance Markievicz's 'Unmarked', 'Mismarked' and 'Remarkable' Women - Michael Jaros: Broken Narratives, Performing Ruins: Yeats, Beckett and the Dramatic Landscape of Catastrophe - Christopher Collins: J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and The Changeling of the Western World - Shonagh Hill: Female Self-Authorship and Reperformance of the 'Good Death' in Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow - Aoife McGrath: 'The Less You Bump, The Faster You Go'?: Staged Scenes of Dissensus in CoisCéim's Dodgems - Steve Wilmer: Theatre and Nation: Performing Statelessness in Ireland and Abroad - Holly Maples: Performing Cultural Trauma: The 1980 'A Sense of Ireland' Festival.