1st Edition
Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland From Republic to Pandemic
Acknowledgements
Introduction: States of Change
Temporal Switch Points
The Politics of Naming Space
A Spectrum of Participation
Public Space as Performance Space
Structure and Design
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1. Storytelling and Performance Post-Good Friday Agreement
A Marriage of Equals?
Troubled Spaces
Chapter 2. Tourism as Performance: Moving into a new Millennium
Papering Over the Cracks
The Trouble with Tourism
Performing the Legacy of the Past
Chapter 3. ‘A Bevy of Beauties’: Feminism, Double Jeopardy, and Charabanc Theatre Company
Creating Space for the Personal
A Feminist Approach to Creating Performance
Charabanc Theatre Company
Double Jeopardy: Women’s Experience in the North of Ireland
Lay Up Your Ends (1983) and Gold in the Streets (1986)
Community Spaces
Chapter 4. ‘Soujourned in Her Majesty’s Prison’: The Performative Actvism of Margaretta D’Arcy
The National Question
The Collision of Activism and Performance
Dirty Protest
Writing as Cultural Resistance
A ‘Feminist Tour of Duty’
Chapter 5. Reclaiming Personal Histories Through Performance
A Volatile Nation
Radical Commemoration
Public and Embodied Sites of Practice
Moments of Communion
Chapter 6. A Dying Tiger: Performing Ireland’s Housing Crisis
Neo-liberal Theatre Production
Critique as Commemoration
Hideously Inequitable Nation
Chapter 7. "Virtual Reroutings": Performing Ireland’s Social Revolution
Pantigate
#WakingTheFeminists
Maser’s Mural
Chapter 8. "Survival is Insufficient": Ireland’s Pandemic Performance
#CovideoParty: Creating a Community Audience Online.
Dear Ireland (2020) – A Postcard from Pandemic Ireland
To be (or not to be) a Machine
Index
Biography
Ciara L. Murphy is an Assistant Lecturer of Drama and Theatre at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.
