Drama: Recent submissions
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Trangression and the sacred : the body as seen through Hijikata Tatsumi's 'Dance of Darkness' and two of his critical Western influences, Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)This dissertation examines the body in Butoh performance. The transgressive and sacred potential present within Hijikata Tatsumi’s dance is considered within a post-structuralist conceptual framework. The cultural and ... -
Wooden, wounded, defaced : performing the body in Irish theatre 1983-1993
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)Wooden. Wounded. Defaced-Performing the Body in Irish Theatre 1983-1993 uses a four-chapter structure to consider the issues of performance and representation in Irish theatre, the specific circumstances within which Irish ... -
Acoustic interculturalism : the performativity of sound and hermeneutic of listening in / to intercultural performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)Studies of intercultural performance have been very much concerned with the politics of cultural practice, the authority of cultural traditions, the location of culture(s) in the interstices of exchange, and the theorising ... -
Performing other Irelands : 'race', politics and contemporary Irish theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)At a time of unprecedented economic upheaval and extraordinarily rapid social transformation, this thesis considers the representation of ‘race’ on the contemporary Irish stage during the Celtic Tiger years. The productions ... -
Performativities of intimacy in the age of biopolitics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)The aim of this thesis is to propose a dialogue between Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy and the field of 'performance studies'. My theory of the performativity of intimacy needs to be read as a conceptual attempt to address ... -
The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015)In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This ... -
Private parts, public bodies : cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth Lecompte
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)In this thesis I ask what cross-dressing can tell us about the formation of identity in performance. I argue that the use of cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth LeCompte can be used to challenge and ... -
Somatic practice in performance : the Maya Lila project of Joan Davis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Drawing on post-positivist and new paradigm research methodologies, I examine the Maya Lila project of Irish contemporary dancer and choreographer Joan Davis. In Maya Lila, Davis places somatic practices usually used in a ... -
Let her speak too : Shakespeare's shrews and the modern stage
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)This thesis takes as its starting point those of Shakespeare's female characters who are upbraided by other characters for speaking inappropriately, or too much, who are, in effect 'shrew' figures. The plays concerned span ... -
Choreographing Ireland : resistive bodies and socially engaged dance theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)This thesis provides a socio-pohtical and cuhural study of socially engaged dance theatre in the Republic of Ireland. It interrogates how the work of certain choreographers challenges the habitual primacy of the textual ... -
Dream Country : the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937 to 1978
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)This thesis is an exploration of the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937-1977. Less than one hundred feature films have been made by Irish film-makers in Ireland in cinema’s first century but more than two thousand fiction ... -
Misrecognition, planning and cultural capitalism : independent theatremaking in Ireland, 1990-2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)This dissertation presents a critique of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of the fields and practices of cultural production through an examination of the case study of independent theatremaking in Ireland between 1990 and 2007. ... -
The playfellow of Judas, J.M. Synge : Plays, politics and pre-Christian Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This dissertation provides a cultural materialist reading of J.M. Synge's dramatisation of the cultural residue of pre-Christian Ireland in five of his seven plays: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), ... -
The woman with a garden : unearthing the artistry and activism of Constance Markievicz 1908-1927
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Constance Markievicz, one of Ireland's founding figures, would not define herself solely as a journalist nor playwright yet her playtexts and rhetorical outputs were just as much a part of her activism as her military ... -
Performing videogames : understanding digital play, agency, and engagement through live performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This thesis Is a contribution to the fields of digital cultural studies, game studies, and studies of theatre and performance, I will consider the aesthetic, structural and technological exchanges, interactions, and ... -
Beyond the trilogy : the urban repertoire of the Abbey Theatre (1904-1951)
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Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation
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Performative Criticism: Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit
(2013)Art criticism is most often expressed as monologue rather than as dialogue, and is generally disseminated in printed text rather than in embodied performance. The Three Dialogues between Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit, ...
