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Fascia: Facilitating Physiological Fluidity and Flow-State for the Actor Body
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2025)Interdisciplinary acting researchers often use neuroscience to support their understanding of embodied studio experiences. However, this neuroscience is predominately cognitive. Though neuroscience supports an integrative ... -
Still Resisting Left Melancholy? Chinese New Leftist theatre�s inheritance and resistance in Che Guevara (Qie Gewala) (2000�1)
(2023)As the fin-de-siècle New Leftist champions of revolution, Zhang Guangtian, Huang Jisu and Shen Lin struck a melancholic note with their collaborative play Che Guevara (Qie Gewala) (2000–1) on the postrevolutionary, ... -
Revolutionary Imaginaries and Legacies in Postrevolutionary Chinese Theatre: Amnesia, Nostalgia, Melancholia, Heterotopia, Cosmopolitanism
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2025)This thesis is a study of postrevolutionary Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the 2010s to explore how revolutionary and socialist legacies, ruins, and memories are reimagined, re-membered, represented on the stage. I ... -
From Vagina Monologues to "Bloody Brides" and Back Again: Vaginal Myths, Street Politics, and Migrant Textile Theatrical Labour in Chinese Feminist Performances (2000s-2020s)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2025)This PhD thesis seeks to explore the ways in which contemporary feminism in China has been enacted and embodied, examining the emergence of new feminist subjects forged by these evolving practices. Central to this inquiry ... -
Landscapes of the socio-political : Irish women playwrights from 2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2017)This thesis looks at intersections between women, theatre and Irish society since the turn of the millennium. There is a history of internalized misogyny throughout Irish theatre and, in part, the impetus for the study has ... -
The Road to Calvary: Tracing the Diachronic Instability in Representations of the Cleric in Modern Irish Film
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2023)This thesis argues for the diachronic contingency of the priest in modern Irish cinema. This study utilises Richard Kearney?s account of `incarnate? and `excarnate? subjectivity to construct an analogous model for analysing ... -
REIMAGINING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ADDRESSING THE CRISES OF DEMOCRACY THROUGH APPLIED DRAMA
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)Liberal democracy is under threat and in a state of crisis around the world. This crisis of democracy is characterised by a rise in right-wing populism, an increase in political strongmen, and an undermining of liberal ... -
Performing Religion and Spirituality: The Postsecular Turn in Contemporary British and Irish Theatre
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This thesis argues that there has been a postsecular turn on the contemporary stage, focussing in particular on woman-centred theatre in Britain and Ireland in the past three decades. It deals with the representation ... -
An Intercultural Theory of the Comic Spirit: Insider/Outsider Dynamics and Representation in Theatre and Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This dissertation commences with an enquiry into the origins of comedy in Greek fertility rituals and nature, drawing upon theories of play, ritual, and community to explicate case studies that have been decidedly sourced ... -
Vocal Artefacts: A Sonic Imagination of the Human Microphone
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2021)This thesis (Vocal Artefacts) presents a body of artistic research and practice inspired by the event of the human microphone at Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, in the autumn of 2011. Vocal Artefacts conceives of the ... -
Leur vie d homme presque, d homme tout juste, d homme assez Une étude de l hybridation des créatures beckettiennes dans le contexte de l Anthropocène
(2020)This article offers a re-contextualisation of Beckett’s creatures in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration which leads to the introduction of a new vocabulary in order to conceptualise his hybrid creatures. After the ... -
Review of book Till Dawn Comes with a Song
(2020)“His grip was firm when he took the note to read the third time. The message stared at him. He stared back at it. The warning was brief and clear-cut. They would kill him if he was not very careful.” These are the opening ... -
Finding Visual Music in its Twentieth Century History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2020)Visual fine art and music are typically considered to be separate disciplines and separate art forms. This, however, is not the case for visual music. Visual music straddles both visual art and music. Visual music has ... -
Virtual Play: Beckettian Experiments in Virtual Reality
(2018)The past ten years have seen extensive experimentation with Beckett and new technological media at Trinity College Dublin. Research projects have included the stage adaptation and installation of a teleplay (Ghost Trio, ... -
Translating the Tragic: Mimetic Transformation of Attic Tragedies on the Contemporary Stage
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)The present study seeks to answer a fundamental series of questions related to the act of translation immanent to theatrical productions in general: which factors bring the real action into being during a performance? How ... -
Issues of gender in the texts of Ulster theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)This thesis is neither a history nor an exact socio/political documentary of Ulster Theatre. However, within textual readings, both discourses are employed to examine issues of gender within a context of more familiar ... -
The thrill of estrangement' : ethnicity and theatrical reality in Les Amertumes, Combat de Negre et de Chiens and Quai Ouest by Bernard-Marie Koltes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This thesis consists of an analysis of ethnicity and modes of theatrical reality in three plays by French dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltes, made possible by a convergence of critical strategies from postcolonialism, phenomenology ... -
Mamulengo Puppet Theatre in the socio-culture context of twentieth-century Brazil
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)Mamulengo is a popular form of puppet theatre in Pernambuco, a state located in the Northeast region of Brazil. It seems to have originated about two centuries ago, and even today, it remains a significant form of entertainment ... -
Affective Encounters: A Study of Immersive Performance and Digital Culture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This thesis presents a study of immersive performance and digital culture. As a whole, the thesis considers the aesthetic experience offered by a certain strand of contemporary immersive theatre which I have identified and ...
