Call for Papers: The Abbey Theatre - Celebrating 100 Years
The Abbey Theatre, Ireland's National Theatre, celebrates its centenary in
2004. To mark the occasion, a series of panels will be held at the 2004
Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish
Literatures, which will be held at NUI Galway from 20-24 July 2004.
Proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of the Abbey Theatre are
solicited. Topics might include the following:
- The history of the Abbey - new approaches, new perspectives
- Reassessing Abbey Theatre controversies - the Playboy of the Western World
and Plough and the Stars riots, the rejection of The Silver Tassie and John
Bull's Other Island, the production of Blanco Posnet, the relocation of the
Abbey Theatre, Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, Barbaric Comedies, etc.
- Canonical Abbey Playwrights - Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, etc.
- Ideas of National Theatre(s) - Past, Present and Future
- The Abbey and European theatre
- The Abbey overseas
- The Abbey and the Irish language
- The Abbey in a comparative international perspective.
- Irish dramatists and the Abbey (especially playwrights not normally
associated with the Abbey, such as Oscar Wilde)
- Neglected Abbey Playwrights - Teresa Deevey, TC Murray, MJ Molloy, Walter
Macken, etc.
- The Abbey Theatre's Directors - Yeats, Gregory, Lennox Robinson, Ernest
Blythe, Patrick Mason, Garry Hynes, Ben Barnes, etc.
- The Abbey and the Irish melodramatic tradition
- The Abbey and the Irish independent theatre sector
- The Abbey and Greek Tragedy
- The Contemporary Abbey Theatre
- The Abbey and Theatre Criticism from Yeats to the present.
- Case histories of individual productions, including productions of
non-Irish plays.
- The Peacock Theatre
- The Abbey and new Irish Writing
- The Future of the Abbey Theatre
- The Abbey - state subsidy and artistic independence
- Irish Arts policy and the national theatre.
Also welcome are papers on the plays being produced by the Abbey in 2004,
which include:
- Frank McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
- Synge, The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea
- Gregory, Spreading the News
- Tom Murphy, The Gigli Concert
- Yeats, Purgatory
- Boucicault, The Shaughran
- Stewart Parker, Heavenly Bodies
- Marina Carr, Portia Coughlan
- O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars
- Bernard Farrell, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell
- Lennox Robinson, Drama at Inish
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes' duration should be sent before 15 February
2004. Email patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie or send post to Patrick Lonergan,
English Department, NUI Galway, Co Galway, Ireland.
Speakers must pay the IASIL Conference Registration Fee, and must be members
of IASIL for 2004.
Details of the IASIL Conference are on http://www.iasil.org/galway
The IASIL website includes a report on the Abbey Centenary -
http://www.iasil.org/newsletter/news03/abbeycentenary.html
Information about IASIL is on http://www.iasil.org
The Abbey Theatre Centenary Programme is listed on http://www.abbeytheatre.ie
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