The collection aims for - and achieves - great breadth. It features seventeen chapters from scholars and practitioners on subjects ranging from socially engaged theatre such as that of ANU Productions and Brokentalkers, to children's theatre, to 'bio-plays' that have taken literary figures as their protagonists, to the touring productions of Druid Theatre Company... the collection succeeds in demonstrating "the ... Read moreongoing role theatre and performance have to play in exploring questions of identity, responsibility, and civic participation". While O'Toole might lament the absence of a 'power play' in contemporary Ireland, Walsh and his contributors show that Irish theatre and performance have responded in diverse and often provocative ways to the challenges of living in contemporary Ireland.
Dr Sinead Moynihan (University of Exeter)
An intelligent, occasionally emotional dissection of what its editor Fintan Walsh pointedly describes as "theatre and performance in a time of crisis". It's a timely compendium of critical essays and recollections by those on the creative front line of a sector confronting profound economic, political and social change. It also proves to be spine-stiffening testimony to theatre's ability to engage with the here and now... highly recommended
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