Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation [Paperback]

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

1. Introduction: Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland
2. Activism, Drag and Solo Performance
3. Reparative Therapies and Political Performers
4. Transforming Shame and Testimonial Performance
5. Intergenerational Moves and Documentary Theatre
6. Sex, Class and the City: Site-Specific Roots and Routes
7. Vertiginous Loss, Love and Belonging on the National Stage
Afterword: Reeling-Feeling
Bibliography
Index

This book offers not only a riveting account of its many forms in Ireland, but acts as a model for reading queer performance transnationally. As such, it is valuable beyond the context of Irish theatre to wider studies of queer performance and queer studies in general. (Alyson Campbell, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 27 (1), 2017)?

Its scope is challenging and  in the best sense of the word  thoughtprovoking~ the depth of its theoretical framework is highly interdisciplinary and refreshing~ and the performances it looks at approach the topic of the book from many varied points of view. One of the strong fortes of the book is the presentation of the argument: the performances always take centre stage and are presented and discussed in very satisfactory detail and depth. & An enjoyable and stirring read. (Michael Heinze, Theater Forschung, theaterforschung.de, May, 2016)