A Stage of Emancipation : : Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre.

• Author: Corporaal, Marguérite.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ruud, Ruud van.
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)

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.