All Outputs (3)

Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded (2020)
Journal Article
Collins, C. (2020). Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded. Irish Studies Review, 28(4), 411-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2020.1827494

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
Collins, C. (2019). Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 35(4), 341-351. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x19000381

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.

‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time (2014)
Journal Article
Collins, C. (2014). ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time

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.