Modernist nostalgia and contemporary Irish dance
(2023)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (16)
Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded (2020)
Journal Article
This article demonstrates how two of J.M. Synge’s plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) document and reflect attitudes towards vagrancy and feeble-mindedness in Ireland at the dawn of the twentieth centur... Read More about Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded.
Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre (2019)
Journal Article
In this article Christopher Collins considers how the rural is represented in contemporary Irish theatre through a performance analysis of WillFredd Theatre’s award-winning production of FARM, staged in an industrial Dublin warehouse. Adopting a rela... Read More about Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre.
Other theatres (2018)
Book
J.M. Synge and the time of his life (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Performing rural spaces in urban places: memory and affective nostalgia (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
John Millington Synge is one the most important and most influential playwrights in modern theatre. Born in 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, Synge had a professional career as a playwright that lasted just seven years before his untimely death at the age of... Read More about Introduction.
Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world (2016)
Book Chapter
This chapter interrogates The Playboy of the Western World in relation to Synge’s scientific analysis of fairy changeling folklore. This chapter proposes an alternative reading of the infamous disturbances that greeted the opening of the performance... Read More about Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world.
The Cambridge encyclopedia of stage actors and acting [entries on Irish actors and theatres] (2015)
Book
10 entries on Irish theatre.
Synge and 'protestant comedy' (2014)
Book Chapter
‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time (2014)
Journal Article
This essay considers Synge’s staging of the caoine (keen) in Riders to the Sea(1904). It argues that the caoine in Riders to the Sea is not simply an aesthetic and unethical fetishization of pre-Christian cultural residue predicated on class insecuri... Read More about ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time.
Forgetting Follow (2014)
Book Chapter
Memory in Ireland is a performative cultural industry that is regulated by the threat of forgetting. Forgetting cannot be cured, because it determines the phenomenology of memory. The more one attempts to defend against forgetting as a phenomenon, th... Read More about Forgetting Follow.
Introduction: the rest is history (2014)
Book Chapter
If the past is a foreign country then it has been colonized. This is a book about lost histories and faded memories of Irish theatre and performance. Winners write history, no one remembers history’s so-called losers. Until now.