1916 in Irish Theatre/ 1916 as Irish Theatre
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Friday 20 May 2016
9.30: Welcome and introduction
Panel 1: Internatoinalising the Rising
- Patrick Lonergan, “Easter 1916 and Internationalising Irish Theatre’
- Charlotte McIvor, “Reherasing Revolution as a prelude to 1916: Yeats, Tagore and Perase and the Staging of Tranational Nationalist Masculinities”
- David Clare: “Anthropological Gays: Casement, Pearse, and 1916”
11.00: Keynote Lecture 1 Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross), “The “Rising” of the American Avant-Garde: The Gate, 1916, and Experimental Theater in Boston”
12.00: Coffee
12.15: Panel 2 The Rising on the Irish Stage
- Ryan K Evans, “An Evolution of the Production History of The Plough and the Stars”
- Christopher McCormack, “”Scenographies of Augusta Gregory’s Plays, Before and After 1916″.
13.15 – Break for Lunch
14.00: Panel 3:
Pearse and Irish Theatre
- Eugene McNulty, “‘Exceptional Bodies: Pearse’s drama and the search for the Law beyond the law’
- Marianne Kennedy, “Pearse as guerrilla, site-specific performance artist. A master of reception.”
- Barry Houllhan, “Decisions at Easter: Perase Takes the Stage”
15.15 – Break
15.45: Panel 4: Commemorations
- Ian Walsh, “The Performance of 1916 at the Abbey Theatre in 1966: Walter Macken’s Recall the Years’
- Maeve Casserly, “‘Commemoration as Staged Memory: A comparative analysis of commemoration in Ireland marking the 1991, 2006 and 2016 anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme”
- Akiko Satake, “”The Easter Rising from a Wider Perspective: Cries of Casment as his Bones are Brought to Dublin and The Non-Stop Connolly Show Part 6″
17.00: Keynote Lecture (2) James Moran (Nottingham):”Child’s Play: Looking again at 1916 Onstage”
18:00: Conference Conclusion
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Patrick Lonergan
Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland.
+353 91 49 4426