Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change

This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as background to examine relationships between activism and contemporary Irish theatre and performance.

Autorentext

Emer O'Toole is Associate Professor of Irish Performance Studies at the School of Irish Studies, Concordia University.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Beauty of Change

1 Arambe Productions: A Hammer, Shaping

2 THEATREclub: Class Acts

3 The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival: Confession and Community

4 Art and the 8th: The Feminist Aesthetics of Tara Flynn, Jesse Jones, and the Suffragettes at the Galway Races

Reflections: On Art That Is Activism

Index