Browsing Drama (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Misrecognition, planning and cultural capitalism : independent theatremaking in Ireland, 1990-2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)This dissertation presents a critique of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of the fields and practices of cultural production through an examination of the case study of independent theatremaking in Ireland between 1990 and 2007. ... -
Acoustic interculturalism : the performativity of sound and hermeneutic of listening in / to intercultural performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)Studies of intercultural performance have been very much concerned with the politics of cultural practice, the authority of cultural traditions, the location of culture(s) in the interstices of exchange, and the theorising ... -
The woman with a garden : unearthing the artistry and activism of Constance Markievicz 1908-1927
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Constance Markievicz, one of Ireland's founding figures, would not define herself solely as a journalist nor playwright yet her playtexts and rhetorical outputs were just as much a part of her activism as her military ... -
Performing other Irelands : 'race', politics and contemporary Irish theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)At a time of unprecedented economic upheaval and extraordinarily rapid social transformation, this thesis considers the representation of ‘race’ on the contemporary Irish stage during the Celtic Tiger years. The productions ... -
Choreographing Ireland : resistive bodies and socially engaged dance theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)This thesis provides a socio-pohtical and cuhural study of socially engaged dance theatre in the Republic of Ireland. It interrogates how the work of certain choreographers challenges the habitual primacy of the textual ... -
Somatic practice in performance : the Maya Lila project of Joan Davis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Drawing on post-positivist and new paradigm research methodologies, I examine the Maya Lila project of Irish contemporary dancer and choreographer Joan Davis. In Maya Lila, Davis places somatic practices usually used in a ... -
Historically revealing : a cultural analysis of four recovered plays by Irish women, 1900-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)This thesis concerns the retrieval and analysis of four plays written in two distinct collaborative configurations by early twentieth-century Irish women, Geraldine Cummins (1890-1968), Susanne Day (1876-1964) and Hester ... -
Performativities of intimacy in the age of biopolitics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)The aim of this thesis is to propose a dialogue between Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy and the field of 'performance studies'. My theory of the performativity of intimacy needs to be read as a conceptual attempt to address ... -
Performing videogames : understanding digital play, agency, and engagement through live performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This thesis Is a contribution to the fields of digital cultural studies, game studies, and studies of theatre and performance, I will consider the aesthetic, structural and technological exchanges, interactions, and ... -
The playfellow of Judas, J.M. Synge : Plays, politics and pre-Christian Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This dissertation provides a cultural materialist reading of J.M. Synge's dramatisation of the cultural residue of pre-Christian Ireland in five of his seven plays: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), ... -
Complexity, post-coloniality, transculturality : the birth of Wole Soyinka's Yoruba tragedy in Nigeria and its intercultural presentation in Britain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)In 1986, Wole Soyinka made history when he became the first African ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Soyinka is a Yoruba man from western Nigeria and he began to write seriously and professionally in 1959 less ... -
The drama of Oscar Wilde : contesting Victorian gender dynamics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2014)This thesis will analyse Oscar Wilde’s dramatic characters and propose that he challenged the typical Victorian gender roles on the stage, and re-imagined more modern modes of masculinity and femininity in his plays. In ... -
The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015)In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This ... -
From avant-garde to negentropy : an aesthetic deployment of Bernard Stiegler's genealogy of the sensible
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2016)This thesis mobilises Bernard Stiegler’s call for a genealogy of the sensible in order to elucidate a peculiar phenomenon in art, which is the increase in the autonomy and efficacy of technology in the making and production ... -
Post-Cold War Experimental Theatre of China: Staging Globalisation and Its Resistance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2017)This thesis is a study of Chinese experimental theatre from the year 1990 to the year 2014, to examine the involvement of Chinese theatre in the process of globalisation – the increasingly intensified relationship between ... -
Landscapes of the socio-political : Irish women playwrights from 2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2017)This thesis looks at intersections between women, theatre and Irish society since the turn of the millennium. There is a history of internalized misogyny throughout Irish theatre and, in part, the impetus for the study has ... -
"Impossible Speech" - Monologue Drama in Ireland from 1964 - 2016: Form and Per(form)ativity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to critique a body of monologue drama by Irish playwrights during the period 1964 to 2016. Building on the recent work of Irish and international scholars on monologue drama and performance, it ... -
The development of Comic Stage Persona (CSP) in stand-up comedy: An interdisciplinary approach to an intersubjective performance phenomenon
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)Comedians learn how and who to be on stage. Writing and performing stand-up comedy entails complex social and professional challenges. Facing these challenges, stand-up comedians adapt personae. Via a critical analysis of ... -
The Fourth Wave fights back: Deconstructing the Performativity of rape culture through contemporary Irish theatre, performance and society
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This dissertation seeks to examine and deconstruct contemporary rape culture. It explores, and builds on, the three preceding waves of the feminist movement, and contextualises established theories of hegemonic masculinity. ... -
Translating the Tragic: Mimetic Transformation of Attic Tragedies on the Contemporary Stage
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)The present study seeks to answer a fundamental series of questions related to the act of translation immanent to theatrical productions in general: which factors bring the real action into being during a performance? How ...
