Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland [Hardcover]

This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993, up to and including the present. The anthology includes plays, experimental performance documentation, and a visual essay that reveal the impassioned creativity that
illuminates and invigorates the margins of culture.Introduction: The Flaming Archive???Fintan Walsh
The Queen & Peacock (2000)???Loughlin Deegan
Passage (2001)???Deirdre Kinahan
A Cure for Homosexuality (2005)???Neil Watkins
The Drowning Room (2006)???Verity-Alicia Mavenawitz
Danny and Chantelle (Still Here) (2006)???Phillip McMahon
The Ecstasy of Tomorrow (Visual Essay, 1987-2010)???Niall Sweeney
Victor and Gord, Ali and Michael (2009)?????na McKevitt, with cast
A Woman in Progress (2009)???Panti This is a very exciting collection which will make a vital contribution to literature on Irish theatre and drama studies. It will also greatly help in documenting the rich, challenging and vibrant nature of LGBTQ culture in Ireland. Perhaps most importantly, it should provoke and entertain a wide audience. ???This important new collection of queer Irish plays, the first of its kind, expands and redefines the shape of Irish drama into the twenty-first century and Fintan Walsh provides us an invaluable intellectual context from which to understand these exciting new plays.???