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Lisa Fitzpatrick
PERFORMING VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND
ISBN 978-1-904-505-44-0 pb.
This interdisciplinary collection of 15 new essays explores aspects of the performance of violence in contemporary Ireland. The essays investigate such wide-ranging issues as the diegetic and mimetic representation of violence on stage, ethical questions involved in performing violence, audience reception, the role of place and space, and social and political performances such as processions, parades, and commemorations. The book aims to contribute to the ongoing international debate on the performance of violence in contemporary societies.
Contents: “Introduction: Performing Violence in Contemporary Ireland” by Lisa Fitzpatrick Section I: The Spoken Word, Music, and Spectacle “Pity vs. Fear: Performing Violence in Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Contemporary Irish Drama” by Danine Farquharson; “The Force of Law in Seamus Heaney’s Greek Translations” by Eugene O’Brien; “Branding Irish Violence: The Spectacles of Rural and Urban ‘Ireland’” by Kyna Hamill; “Fighting the Peace: Violence, Counter-Narrative, and the Work of Gary Mitchell” by Tim Miles; “Representing Acceptability: Power, Violence and Satire in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore” by Catherine Rees; “Speaking Violence in Conor McPherson’s Rum and Vodka and The Good Thief” by Tom Maguire; “’Stap Fightin’: Accents of Violence in the Work of James Young” by Paul Moore; “The Representation of Violence in Music: Ian Wilson’s Hamelin” by Cormac Newark “Framing Reality: A Case Study in Prison Theatre in Northern Ireland” by David Grant
Part II: Site, Social Space, and Place “Restaging Violence: H-Block as Abu Ghraib, Castlereagh as CampX-Ray” by Paul Devlin; “The Utopian Performative in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish Theatre” by Lisa Fitzpatrick;; “Performance and Potentiality: Violence, Procession, and Space” by Jonathan Harden; “Parading Memory: Producing Commemoration in the IrishRepublic’s Celebrations of 1916” by Holly Maples; “Performing Provisionalism: Republican Commemorative Practice as Political Performance” by Kris Brown & Elisabetta Viggiani.
The Editor: Lisa Fitzpatrick received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, in 2003. Her recent essay ‘Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage’ is published in Feminist Literatures and Rape Narratives ed. Gunne and Brigley (Routledge), and she has published book chapters and journal articles on women’s writing, and contemporary Irish performance. She is subject director for Drama at the University of Ulster, where she teaches feminist performance theory, dramaturgy, and North American Theatre.
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