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

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Place / Publishing House:Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages)
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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.