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Perspectives On Practice: Building A Better Environment For All – An Interview With Jane Daly And Siobhán Bourke, Tanya Dean

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In this Perspectives on Practice interview, Tanya Dean speaks to SiobhánBourke and Jane Daly about their work with Irish Theatre Institute in supporting Irish theatre and fostering positive change in the industry. The discussion explores how the purpose of Irish Theatre Institute has evolved, and how it has adapted to and reflected the changes and challenges facing Irish theatre over the decades

Acting In Good Faith, Tanya Dean

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Minerals And Memories: Ireland's Ballrooms Of Romance, Tanya Dean

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Ireland: Context - Sociopolitical Background, Tanya Dean

Books/Book Chapters

The period from the 1990s through to 2020 saw a profound shift in the identity of the Republic of Ireland. The early twentieth century was focussed on the move from a colonial to a postcolonial existence, and the majority of the first decades of independence were spent struggling as one of the poorest countries in Western Europe and taking tentative steps onto the single market as a member of the EU (then EEC) after 1973. However, the period of the 1990s to late 2000s saw the nation gradually assert itself as an increasingly liberal, notionally secular, economically vigorous member of …

Fear Of Missing Out: Performance Art Through The Lens Of Participatory Culture, Katherine Nolan

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This research project set out to examine FOMO through the curation of a performance art event. Referring to the ‘fear of missing out’, FOMO is posited as symptomatic of the ways in which embodied subjectivities are performed through participatory cultures. With the insidious co-option of such cultures by powerful multinational companies, come new ways in which the body is commodified in late-capitalist economies. This paper examines modes of prosumption emergent from digital and social media and considers strategies of performance in this context. It could be argued that performance art practices might resist or intervene in such discourses through a …

Mogu And The Unicorn: Frederick May's Music For The Gate Theatre, Mark Fitzgerald

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This chapter addresses the contributions that Frederick May (1911-85) made to the Gate's productions of Padraic Colum's Mogu of the Desert (1931) and Denis Johnston's A Bride for the Unicorn (1933). As a young gay Irishman, May had to navigate a cultural infrastructure in which opportunities for composers were scarce, but at the Gate he was given the chance to develop his talents in a new field, as well as to experiment with musical forms in a high-profile setting.

Gender Counts: An Analysis Of Gender In Irish Theatre 2006-15, Brenda Donohue, Ciara O'Dowd, Tanya Dean, Ciara Murphy, Kathleen Cawley, Kate Harris

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In 2016, thanks to support from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, #WakingTheFeminists commissioned groundbreaking research into the gender balance in Irish theatre. Here are the results.

The research was conducted by a team of six researchers led by Dr. Brenda Donohue, in collaboration with Irish Theatre Institute and the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway. Their work looks at key creative roles in ten of the top Arts Council-funded theatre organisations in the country over a ten year period from 2006-15

Book Review: "The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899–1939.", Tanya Dean

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Book Review of The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899–1939, by Anthony Roche, London, Bloomsbury methuen drama, 2015, 272 pp., £16.99 (paperback), iSBn 9781408175286

Loving The Art In Yourself, Mary Moynihan

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The Big House Poster, Mary Moynihan

Concert Programmes

Poster for The Big House by Peter Sheridan, adapted from Hanna Greally's book Bird's Nest Soup, Rehearsed Reading by the BA in Drama (Performance) First Year Students, directed by Mary Moynihan

Interview With Margaret Toomey, Mary Moynihan

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“More Books” Reviews., Tanya Dean

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Short reviews of:

Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China. By Siyuan Liu. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013;

Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance: Meetings with Remarkable Women. By Virginie Magnat. New York: Routledge, 2014;

Theatre in the Expanded Field: Seven Approaches to Performance. By Alan Read. New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013

Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage. By Ryan Claycomb. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012;

Sheridan's Promising Tale Is Half Told, Ian Kilroy

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Review of 'Break a Leg', the memoir by Irish theatre artist Peter Sheridan. First published in the Sunday Business Post Magazine.

Romeo And Juliet Poster, Mary Moynihan

Concert Programmes

Poster for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Mary Moynihan, BA in Drama (Performance) Graduating Production at Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin, 2013

Romeo And Juliet Flier, Mary Moynihan

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Flier for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Mary Moynihan, BA in Drama (Performance) Graduating Production at Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin, 2013

Programe For Witness - Season Of Plays At Project Arts Centre Dublin By Smashing Times Theatre, Mary Moynihan

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Theatre Programme 2013 for production of Witness - Season of Smashing Times plays, readings, performances at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 5-9 November 2013, featuring professional productions of three plays: Testimonies, Thou Shalt Not Kill, Uprising and showcase reading of new work read by BA in Drama (Performance) students from DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.

Romeo And Juliet Invitation, Mary Moynihan

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Invitation for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Mary Moynihan, BA in Drama (Performance) Graduating Production at Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin, 2013

Flier For Macbeth, Mary Moynihan

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Poster For Production Of Macbeth, Mary Moynihan

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Poster for Production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Mary Moynihan, BA in Drama (Performance), 2012

Acting For Change – Four Drama Workshop Models In Anti-Racism, Anti-Sectarianism, Human Rights And Gender Equality And Storytelling To Promote Reconciliation, Mary Moynihan

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This booklet is written by Mary Moynihan and produced by Smashing Times Theatre Company Limited as part of Acting for Change, a year-long arts programme using high quality drama and theatre processes to promote reconciliation within Donegal and on a cross-community, cross-border basis. As part of the project, in addition to presenting a professional theatre performance and seminar, the company developed four new awareness raising participative drama workshop models, designed by Mary Moynihan to promote anti-racism, anti-sectarianism, equality and storytelling for reconciliation.

The four drama workshop models are printed in full in this booklet along with resource information for drama …

Fly Faster, Jim Mcgovern

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‘Fly Faster’ is an audio play by Jim McGovern. The underlying genre is tragedy with some dry humour and incidental music. The main theme is academic rivalry and the feeling of being repressed or bullied. The context is a department of aeronautical engineering at a university. The play also takes an irreverent look at some engineering, academic and commercial attitudes and practices. It may contain some technical terms! A full three-act stage play variant is also available: ‘Just Let Me Fly.’

Leonard Twiglet runs a propeller-propulsion research grouping, called APPEAL, from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of …

Just Let Me Fly, Jim Mcgovern

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‘Just Let Me Fly’ is a three act play by Jim McGovern. The underlying genre is tragedy with some dry humour and incidental music. The main theme is academic rivalry and the feeling of being repressed or bullied. The context is a department of aeronautical engineering at a university. An audio play variant is also available: ‘Fly Faster.’

The main character, Leonard Twiglet, is a middle-aged Reader in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Selfridge. Between the spring of 2003 and the autumn of 2004 Leonard experiences a crisis that, without his realizing it, has been building up for years. …

Theatre Programme For Orphans At Focus Theatre 2010, Mary Moynihan

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Theatre Programme for Orphans by Dennis Kelly at Focus Theatre, 2010, produced by Smashing Times Theatre Company and PlayLeft Productions, directed by Mary Moynihan. Cast are Annette Flynn, Adam Traynor, Colm O' Brien and Éanna Moynihan O Brádaigh.

The Crucible Flier, Mary Moynihan

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Flier for The Crucible by Arthur Miller, directed by Mary Moynihan, at St. Dympnha's Oratory, Grangegorman, BA in Drama (Performance) Graduating Production 2010

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dit Conservatory Of Music And Drama, Ba In Drama Graduating Production, Technological University Dublin

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Orpheus Descending Theatre Poster, Mary Moynihan

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Theatre poster for production of Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, Mill Theatre, Dundrum, 2007, BA in Drama (Performance) Graduating Production, directed by Mary Moynihan

Il Y A L'Autre Dans Le Je(U) : Le Monologue Chez Brian Friel, Noel Fitzpatrick

Conference papers

This conference paper (in French) explores the construction of interlocution in the monologues of Brian Friel's theatre. It proposes a novel means of analysis of the monologue by mobilising key developments in French pragmatic linguistic analysis of I and You and interlocution.

Drama In The Docklands, Mary Moynihan

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An article by Mary Moynihan in IN2 Magazine, issue number seven, Winter 2005, on Drama in the Docklands, a project run by Smashing Times Theatre Company that promotes access to creativity in the docklands area of Dublin, bringing drama into two primary schools - St Joseph's Primary School, East Wall and City Quay Primary School, City Quay. The article documents the project and the year-end show by children at Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin.

Laughing Together : Community Based Theatre's Vital Sense Of Humour, Mary Moynihan, Paul Kennedy

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The Carnival King, Ian Kilroy

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A play in two acts. A macabre farce about murder and the search for justice during carnival time.