A Stage of Emancipation : Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre.
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction: A Stage of Emancipation
- Part I: Liberating Bodies
- 2. Queering the Irish Actress: The Gate Theatre Production of Children in Uniform (1934)
- 3. Maura Laverty at the Gate: Theatre as Social Commentary in 1950s Ireland
- Part II: Emancipating Communities
- 4. 'Let's Be Gay, While We May': Artistic Platforms and the Construction of Queer Communities in Mary Manning's Youth's the Season-?
- 5. Images and Imperatives: Robert Collis's Marrowbone Lane (1939) at the Gate as Theatre for Social Change
- 6. Authenticity and Social Change on the Stage in the 1970s: 'Communicating with the People'
- Part III: Staging Minority Languages
- 7. Micheál mac Liammóir, the Irish Language, and the Idea of Freedom
- 8. The Use of Minority Languages at Dublin's Gate Theatre and Barcelona's Teatre Lliure
- Part IV: Deconstructing Aesthetics
- 9. Mogu and the Unicorn: Frederick May's Music for the Gate Theatre
- 10. Tartan Transpositions: Materialising Europe, Ireland, and Scotland in the Designs of Molly MacEwen
- Part V: Contesting Traditions in Contemporary Theatre
- 11. From White Othello to Black Hamlet: A History of Race and Representation at the Gate Theatre
- 12. Bending the Plots: Selina Cartmell's Gate and Politics of Gender Inclusion
- Index.