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The
Abbey Theatre - Celebrating 100 Years
The
Abbey Theatre, Ireland's National Theatre, celebrates its centenary
in 2004. To mark the occasion, a series of panels will be held at
the 2004 Conference of the International Association for the Study
of Irish Literatures, which will be held at NUI Galway from 20-23
July 2004.
To
date, the following papers have been accepted for inclusion in this
panel:
1.
Patrick Burke, (St Patrick’s College Drumcondra), Professional Amateurs
at the Abbey
2. Anne
Butler, (Boston College) The Abbey Theatre Years of Una Troy (Elizabeth
Connor)-Irish Playwright and Novelist
3.
Eamonn Cantwell, W.B.Yeats's Where there is Nothing”
4.
James Farrelly (University of Dayton) ““Singing ‘Of what is past,
passing, or to come’: The Apocalyptic Vision of Yeats’s Purgatory”
5.
Peter James Harris (State University of Sau Paulo) “Shadows from the
past – Sean O’Casey and the Abbey ”
6.
Chiaki Kojima (University of Tokyo) “From the Irish Drama to the Japanese
New Drama II: Shoyo Matsui’s Adaptation and Reformation”
7.
Peter Kuch, (University of New South Wales) Abbey Tours to Australia
8.
Helen Lojek (Boise State University), Observe the Sons of Ulster:
Historical Stages
9.
Holly Maples, (University of Michigan –Ann Arbor), “Performing the
Real: Realism as Nationalism in Irish Drama”
10.
Mark Phelan (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Performing the Abbey’ :
The Abbey and and Ulster Literary Theatre
11.
Alexandra Poulain, (UP IV) O Paradiso: Talking, Writing and Singing
in The Gigli Concert
12.
Nancy E Raftery (Camden County College New Jersey), Lennox Robison
13.
Ms Eglantina Remport (ELTE, Hungary - Graduate Research Student) ““See
the play as a picture”: Lady Gregory's pictorial spectacle”
14.
Futoshi Sakauchi (University College Dublin) “The Triumph of Failure:
Yeats's At the Hawk's Well in 1916”
15.
Roberta Weldon, (University of Houston), Brinsley McNamara’s Glorious
Uncertainty.
The
original call for papers for this panel is pasted below:
Proposals
for 20 minute papers on any aspect of the Abbey Theatre are solicited.
Topics might include the following:
- The
history of the Abbey - new approaches, new perspectives
- Reassessing
Abbey Theatre controversies - the Playboy of the Western World
and Plough and the Stars riots, the rejection of The
Silver Tassie and John Bull's Other Island, the production
of Blanco Posnet, the relocation of the Abbey Theatre,
Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, Barbaric Comedies,
etc.
- Canonical
Abbey Playwrights - Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, etc.
- Ideas
of National Theatre(s) - Past, Present and Future
- The
Abbey and European theatre
- The
Abbey overseas
- The
Abbey and the Irish language
- The
Abbey and Writing by Irish Women
- The
Abbey in a comparative international perspective.
- Irish
dramatists and the Abbey (especially playwrights not normally associated
with the Abbey, such as Oscar Wilde)
- Neglected
Abbey Playwrights - Teresa Deevey, TC Murray, MJ Molloy, etc.
- The
Abbey Theatre's Directors - Yeats, Gregory, Lennox Robinson, Ernest
Blythe, Patrick Mason, Garry Hynes, Ben Barnes, etc.
- The
Abbey and the Irish melodramatic tradition
- The
Abbey and the Irish independent theatre sector
- The
Abbey and Greek Tragedy
- The
Contemporary Abbey Theatre
- The
Abbey and Theatre Criticism from Yeats to the present.
- Case
histories of individual productions, including productions of non-Irish
plays.
- The
Peacock Theatre
- The
Abbey and new Irish Writing
- The
Future of the Abbey Theatre
- The
Abbey - state subsidy and artistic independence
- Irish
Arts policy and the national theatre.
Also
welcome are papers on the plays being produced by the Abbey in 2004,
which include:
- Frank
McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the
Somme
- Synge,
The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the
Sea
- Gregory,
Spreading the News
- Tom
Murphy, The Gigli Concert
- Yeats,
Purgatory
- Boucicault,
The Shaughran
- Stewart
Parker, Heavenly Bodies
- Marina
Carr, Portia Coughlan
- O'Casey,
The Plough and the Stars
- Bernard
Farrell, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell
- Lennox
Robinson, Drama at Inish
Proposals
for papers of 20 minutes' duration should be sent before 15 February
2004. Email patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
or send post to Patrick Lonergan, English Department, NUI Galway,
Co Galway, Ireland.
Speakers
must pay the IASIL Conference Registration Fee, and must be members
of IASIL for 2004.
Details
of the IASIL Conference are on http://www.iasil.org/galway
The
IASIL website includes a report on the Abbey Centenary - http://www.iasil.org/newsletter/news03/abbeycentenary.html
Information
about IASIL is on http://www.iasil.org
The
Abbey Theatre Centenary Programme is listed on http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
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