Australasian Drama Studies

Issue 43 October 2003

Performing Ireland
Edited by Brian Singleton and Anna McMullan
A special focus issue of Australasian Drama Studies
 

Table of Contents

1. Issue 043 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Performing Ireland: New Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre BRIAN SINGLETON and ANNA McMULLAN
3. Renegotiating Landscapes of the Female: Voices, Topographies and Corporealities of Alterity in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan MELISSA SIHRA
4. ‘The Souvenir from Foreign Parts’: Foreign Femininity in Deborah Warner’s Medea AOIFE MONKS
5. Shattering Images of Sex Acts and Other Obscene Staged Transgressions in Contemporary Irish Plays by Men STEPHEN DI BENEDETTO
6. ‘There’s Something Queer Here’: Modern Ireland and the Plays of Frank McGuinness DAVID CREGAN
7. Hard Wired/Tender Bodies: Power, Loneliness, the Machine and the Person in the Work of Desperate Optimists CATHY LEENEY
8. The Fantasy of Post-Nationalism in Northern Theatre: Caught Red Handed Transplanting the Planter MARK PHELAN
9. Gendered Media Rivalry: Irish Drama and American Film ROBIN ROBERTS
10. ‘Inside the Immigrant Mind’: Nostalgic Versus Nomadic Subjectivities in Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama PAUL MURPHY
11. ‘Have you no homes to go to?’ Staging the Diaspora: a Study of Milo’s Wake JULIE-ANN ROBSON
12. Kia ora Begorrah: Performing Irishness in Aotearoa DAVID O’DONNEL

NOTE from Helen Thompson

Reviews

NADIA FLETCHER, The Jack Manning Trilogy by David Williamson

JONATHAN DAWSON, Dirty Deeds: Screenplay by David Caesar, and Rabbit-Proof Fence: Screenplay by Christine Olsen

DAVID CARNEGIE, Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice and Theory by Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, & Brian Wooland

CATHERINE NEWEY, Reflecting the Audience, London Theatregoing, 1840-1880 by Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow

RICHARD FOTHERINGHAM, Dames, Principal Boys … and All That: A History of Pantomime in Australia by Viola Tait

MICHELE PIERSON, Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema by Rae Beth Gordon

IAN MAXWELL, Re:Direction: A Theoretical and Practical Guide ed. Rebecca Schneider & Gabrielle Cody

JULIAN MEYRICK, Nowhere but Broadway by Jill Shearer and In-yer-face Theatre: British Drama Today by Aleks Sierz