‘I love craft. I love the word’

The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her plays produced in Ireland, the UK, the USA and across mainland Europe. Her work explores issues of personal and communal identity, bringing forward the difficulties that arise for individuals when accepted narratives of identity diverge from contemporary experience. In this collection of ten original essays, and an interview with the playwright, the authors address the ways in which Kinahan’s plays interrogate and seek to renegotiate value systems of family, class, ethnicity, age and gender in the 21st century neoliberal, secular state, with an emphasis on experimental forms and the renewal of the genre of the family play. Theoretical frameworks rely on feminism, intersectionality, genre studies, and age studies, among other approaches, by authors from Ireland, the UK, Hungary, the USA, Nigeria, Canada and Taiwan.

• Reihe: Carysfort Press Ltd.
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Gruppen
• ISBN: 9781800796263
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2022
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Lisa Fitzpatrick, Maria Kurdi