Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859184693 ISBN 13: 9781859184691

Publisher: Cork University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993, up to and including the present. The anthology includes plays, experimental performance documentation, and a visual essay that reveal the impassioned creativity that

illuminates and invigorates the margins of culture.

About this title

About the Author

Fintan Walsh is IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Drama at the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College, Dublin.

Review

‘This is a very exciting collection which will make a vital contribution to literature on Irish theatre and drama studies. It will also greatly help in documenting the rich, challenging and vibrant nature of LGBTQ culture in Ireland. Perhaps most importantly, it should provoke and entertain a wide audience.’ Eibhear Walsh, University College Cork

‘This important new collection of queer Irish plays, the first of its kind, expands and redefines the shape of Irish drama into the twenty-first century and Fintan Walsh provides us an invaluable intellectual context from which to understand these exciting new plays.’ Professor Ivana Bacik, Trinity College Dublin

'...an urgent and important book: inspiring as it is challenging, informative as it surprising - and one that deserves the widest possible audience.' Patrick Lonergan, Irish Theatre Magazine

‘Queer Notions serves as a critical intervention and unique resource for researchers and artists alike [...] Walsh's book expands the canon of Irish dramatic literature and makes a powerful and urgent case for the necessary analysis of queer transnational flows vis-à-vis performance histories.’ Charlotte McIvor, Theatre Survey

‘Queer Notions makes an important step in ‘redressing the archive’, reminding us that non-normative sexualities remain actively contested territories and inviting further critical engagement with queer performance. ‘ Clare Wallace, Irish Studies Review

‘a stimulating collection of plays that embrace non-normative sexualities.’ Graham Price, Irish University Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1859184693
• ISBN 13: 9781859184691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Fintan Walsh