All Outputs (7)

Modernist nostalgia and contemporary Irish dance (2023)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2023). Modernist nostalgia and contemporary Irish dance. In A. Curtin, N. Johnson, N. Paxton, & C. Warden (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre. Edinburgh University Press

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2016). Introduction. In J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638720

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
Collins, C. (2016). Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world. In Theatre and Residual Culture: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (201-258). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7

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.

"This world of inarticulate power": J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea and magical realism (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2014). "This world of inarticulate power": J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea and magical realism. In J. F. Dean, & J. Lanters (Eds.), Beyond realism: experimental and unconventional Irish drama since the revival (13-27). Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401212014_003

Synge and 'protestant comedy' (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2014). Synge and 'protestant comedy'. In E. Weitz (Ed.), For the sake of sanity: doing things with humour in Irish performance. Carysfort Press

Forgetting Follow (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2014). Forgetting Follow. In Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186

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
Collins, C., & Caulfield, M. P. (2014). Introduction: the rest is history. In C. Collins, & M. P. Caulfield (Eds.), Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186

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.