Navigating Ireland's theatre archive : theory, practice, performance. Reimagining Ireland ; volume 87

Houlihan, Barry:

ISBN 10: 1787073726 / ISBN 13: 9781787073722

Verlag: Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Wien : Peter Lang [2019]., 2019

Beschreibung

xii, 281 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm, 434 g Tadelloses, sauberes Exemplar. The historiography of Irish theatre has largely been dependent on in-depth studies of the play-text as the definitive primary source. This volume explores the processes of engaging with the documented and undocumented record of Irish theatre and broadens the concept of evidential study of performance through the use of increasingly diverse sources. The archive is regarded here as a broad repository of evidence including annotated scripts, photographs, correspondence, administrative documents, recordings and other remnants of the mechanics of producing theatre. It is an invaluable resource for scholars and artists in interrogating Ireland s performance history. This collection brings together key thinkers, scholars and practitioners who engage with the archive of Irish theatre and performance in terms of its creation, management and scholarly as well as artistic interpretation. New technological advances and mass digitization allow for new interventions in this field. The essays gathered here present new critical thought and detailed case studies from archivists, theatre scholars, historians and artists, each working in different ways to uncover and reconstruct the past practice of Irish performance through new means. Contents: CHARLOTTE MCIVOR Preface z; BARRY HOULIHAN Introduction: The Potential of the Archive 9; PART I Digital Archives and Digital Theatre Histories: The Interface of the Performance Archive; GILLIAN JOY AND TRICIA o BEIRNE The Abbey Theatre Minute Book Transcription Project: Digitally Reading the Administrative Record of Irish Theatre 31; CIARA CONWAY Staging Absence for Digital Historiography: Feminist Irish Theatre 51; MARTIN BRADLEY AND JOHN COX The Abbey Theatre Archive Digitisation Project at NUI Galway: Delivering Mass Digitisation of a Multimedia Archive with Positive Academic and Library Impact 6; FREYA CLARE SMITH, IN COLLABORATION WITH HUGH DENARD Digitally Re-envisioning Lost Theatre Spaces: Dublin s Theatre Royal 79 PART II Text, Language and Theatres: Archival Literacy and the Elements of Performance; BARRY HOULIHAN Creatures of his Imagination : The Becoming of Plays and the Archive of Thomas Kilroy 103; EMER MCHUGH A Shared Language: Placing and Displacing Shakespeare in the Irish National Theatrical Repertoire 123; RUUD VAN DEN BEUKEN Three cheers for the Descendancy! : Middle-Class Dreams and (Dis)illusions in Mary Manning s Happy Family (1934) 141; PART III Memories and Recounting Performance: Documentation and the Power Dynamics of Performance Archives; BRENDA DONOHUE Women and the Archive: What Vision of the Present Will Be Preserved for the Future? 163; ANNE ETIENNE I Remember ; I Forget ; I Can t Forget : Oral History, the Archive and Remembering Corcadorca s The Merchant of Venice 181; CONOR O MALLEY Performing the Troubles at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast,1969-1981 201; KIERAN CRONIN AND ELIZABETH HOWARD Identity, Legacy and the Official: Power Relations of the Documented and Undocumented in the Red Kettle Theatre Company Archive 223; PART IV Reanimation: Archives as and in Performance: Staging the Archive; COLIN MURPHY Sometimes the Archive Lies 247; DAVID CLARE Compiling a New Composite Draft of J. M. Synge s When the Moon Has Set 259 ISBN 9781787073722 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 432. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1156842

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Verlag: Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Wien : Peter Lang [2019].

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The historiography of Irish theatre has largely been dependent on in-depth studies of the play-text as the definitive primary source. This volume broadens the concept of evidential study of performance through the use of increasingly diverse sources, including annotated scripts, photographs, correspondence, administrative documents and recordings.

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Barry Houlihan is an archivist at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, and teaches Irish theatre history at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway. He holds a PhD on Irish theatre and social engagement. His research interests include theatre historiography, political and social theatre, archival and cultural theory and digital humanities. He is also a project team member of the Abbey Theatre and Gate Theatre Digital Archive Projects.