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On going on : the ethic of impossibility in the performance of Samuel Beckett's prose
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2009)This dissertation presents a history of performances of the prose of Samuel Beckett and illuminates a theory of prose performance through readings of his work. Unifying a phenomenological reading of prose performance with ... -
Performative Criticism: Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit
(2013)Art criticism is most often expressed as monologue rather than as dialogue, and is generally disseminated in printed text rather than in embodied performance. The Three Dialogues between Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit, ... -
Performativities of intimacy in the age of biopolitics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)The aim of this thesis is to propose a dialogue between Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy and the field of 'performance studies'. My theory of the performativity of intimacy needs to be read as a conceptual attempt to address ... -
Performing other Irelands : 'race', politics and contemporary Irish theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)At a time of unprecedented economic upheaval and extraordinarily rapid social transformation, this thesis considers the representation of ‘race’ on the contemporary Irish stage during the Celtic Tiger years. The productions ... -
Performing Religion and Spirituality: The Postsecular Turn in Contemporary British and Irish Theatre
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This thesis argues that there has been a postsecular turn on the contemporary stage, focussing in particular on woman-centred theatre in Britain and Ireland in the past three decades. It deals with the representation ... -
Performing videogames : understanding digital play, agency, and engagement through live performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This thesis Is a contribution to the fields of digital cultural studies, game studies, and studies of theatre and performance, I will consider the aesthetic, structural and technological exchanges, interactions, and ... -
Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)If language is subjective, if the sign is unstable, if meaning is endlessly deferred, how is it possible to assume a position of moral critique? Confronted by persistent social crisis, the American theatre and opera ... -
Post-Cold War Experimental Theatre of China: Staging Globalisation and Its Resistance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2017)This thesis is a study of Chinese experimental theatre from the year 1990 to the year 2014, to examine the involvement of Chinese theatre in the process of globalisation – the increasingly intensified relationship between ... -
Present laughter : humour at the site of impact in theatre performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2000)This dissertation examines the implications for the humorous transaction at its immediate site of impact within mimetic theatre performance, as given to the bodied subjects involved. The thesis establishes its theoretical ... -
Private parts, public bodies : cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth Lecompte
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)In this thesis I ask what cross-dressing can tell us about the formation of identity in performance. I argue that the use of cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth LeCompte can be used to challenge and ... -
REIMAGINING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ADDRESSING THE CRISES OF DEMOCRACY THROUGH APPLIED DRAMA
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)Liberal democracy is under threat and in a state of crisis around the world. This crisis of democracy is characterised by a rise in right-wing populism, an increase in political strongmen, and an undermining of liberal ... -
Review of book Till Dawn Comes with a Song
(2020)“His grip was firm when he took the note to read the third time. The message stared at him. He stared back at it. The warning was brief and clear-cut. They would kill him if he was not very careful.” These are the opening ... -
The Road to Calvary: Tracing the Diachronic Instability in Representations of the Cleric in Modern Irish Film
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2023)This thesis argues for the diachronic contingency of the priest in modern Irish cinema. This study utilises Richard Kearney?s account of `incarnate? and `excarnate? subjectivity to construct an analogous model for analysing ... -
Robert Serumaga and the golden age of Uganda's theatre : solipsism, activism, innovation (1968-1978)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The theoretical methodology employed in the research and writing of this thesis is primarily postcolonial. Though comparatively nuanced, poststructuralism is also employed. The emphasis in the latter is on the Foucaldian ... -
Same Frame, New Picture: Changing Gender, Ethnic and Cultural Representation in Hollywood Genre Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This study explores the potential of a Hollywood genre film to disestablish those retrogressive gender, ethnic and cultural representations that are frequently encoded in the tropes of Hollywood genre cinema. To that end, ... -
Somatic practice in performance : the Maya Lila project of Joan Davis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Drawing on post-positivist and new paradigm research methodologies, I examine the Maya Lila project of Irish contemporary dancer and choreographer Joan Davis. In Maya Lila, Davis places somatic practices usually used in a ... -
The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015)In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This ... -
The body sonic : performance of the voice in Paula Meehan's lyrical theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The thesis investigates the dramatic repertoire of contemporary Irish poet and playwright, Paula Meehan (b. 1955). The five chapters explore Paula Meehan’s eight original plays and her theatre collaborations. To explore ... -
The drama of Oscar Wilde : contesting Victorian gender dynamics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2014)This thesis will analyse Oscar Wilde’s dramatic characters and propose that he challenged the typical Victorian gender roles on the stage, and re-imagined more modern modes of masculinity and femininity in his plays. In ... -
The globalisation of Robert Lepage : Québécois cultural politics and contemporary theatre practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2005)This thesis is an analysis of four productions by the quebecois theatre artist Robert Lepage, and of their reception. 1 chose these productions because they broadly cover the span of Lepage's career to date (1980s: Vinci ...