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	Irish theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of Irish theatre begins with the rise of the English administration in Dublin at the start of the 17th century.
		At the beginning of the 20th century, theatres and theatre companies dedicated to the staging of Irish plays and the development of indigenous writers, directors and performers began to emerge.
		A sea change in the history of the Irish theatre came with the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre, later to become the Abbey Theatre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_theatre (2235 words)

	irish theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The an outbreak of plague in London, which had closed down the theatres there, made it easier to recruit for the project, and Ogilby even managed to bring over a resident playwright, James Shirley.
		Boucicault is widely regarded as the wittiest Irish dramatist between Sheridan and Oscar Wilde (1845-1900).
		Behan, in his use of song and direct address to the audience, was influenced by Brecht and Denis Johnston used modernist techniques including found texts and collage, but their works had little impact on the dramatists who came after them.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /irish_theatre.html (2202 words)

	Irish theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The history of Irish theatre begins with the rise of the administration in Dublin at the start of the 17th Over the next 400 years this small was to make a disproportionate contribution to in English.
		A sea change in the history of Irish theatre came with the establishment in in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre later become the Abbey Theatre.
		Equally importantly through the introduction by via Ezra Pound of elements of the Noh theatre of Japan a tendency to mythologise quotidian situations a particularly strong focus on writings in of Hiberno-English the Abbey was to create style that held a strong fascination for Irish dramatists.
	www.freeglossary.com /Irish_theatre (2214 words)

	The Voice of Nationalism - One Hundred Years of Irish Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Irish Literary Theatre is largely responsible for this vision of rural Ireland and for the ascendance of the peasant as a figure of quintessential Irishness.
		And Irish audiences were shocked that, only ten years after an event which had claimed the lives of many of their loved ones, a playwright like O'Casey would dare impugn the sanctity of the nationalist project.
		By now, Irish playwrights have overcome the stereotypes of a century ago and are challenged to chronicle and interpret a new chapter in their nation's progress.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/humanities/1999-01/irish_theater.html (1446 words)

	University of Delaware: IRISH THEATRE JOURNALS
		Irish Theatre Journals is a collection of six bound volumes of clippings, programs, articles, and autograph notes regarding theater in Dublin, Ireland.
		Dr. Lawrence had hoped to publish a record of Irish theater from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century but the project was never completed.
		2-4 of "History of the Dublin Theatres," apparently removed from "a work published at Dublin, in 1788, and written by one Robert Hitchcock" (prompter at the Theatre Royal), which was quoted, at length, in Chapter 1 of the series.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/irishtht.htm (1094 words)

	the theatre shop - irish theatre handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irish theatre is renowned the world over, for its rich literary tradition and for the quality of its writing, acting, and directing.
		Since it was first published in 1998, the Irish Theatre Handbook has become the ‘bible’ of the professional theatre industry in Ireland, North and South, and has developed a growing international readership.
		The Irish Theatre Handbook also includes a directory of funding and training opportunities, youth theatre groups, an up-to-date Irish and UK press list, plus a selection of international arts festivals and networks.
	www.theatreshop.ie /handbook.html (318 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 338 - 02 November, 1982 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers - Irish Theatre Company.
		The funding of the Irish Theatre Company is under consideration in the context of the Estimates for Public Services for 1983.
		The Arts Council made a decision, within their terms of reference, concerning the Irish Theatre Company and the funding of touring theatre in Ireland and they decided touring theatre could be better achieved in another way.
		In 1982 there was a crisis prevailing in the Irish Theatre Company, perhaps as much as anything else because of the general election situation at the beginning of the year when decisions which should have been taken were postponed.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0338/D.0338.198211020004.html (712 words)

	Irish Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The community theatre group, dedicated to performing the best of Irish theatre, presents The Cripple of Inishmaan at Arts Court Theatre, March 9 to 12.
		But for someone who dismisses the Irish theatre community as âdisgusting, depraved and back-stabbingâ, Walsh seems comfortable enough when heâs in it.
		Irish theater company to perform: The Innisfree Irish Theatre Company will perform The Shaughraun, a tongue-in-cheek Irish melodrama, March 10-12 at Jupiter's...
	www.wikiverse.org /irish-theatre (2291 words)

	Irish Literary Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish Literary Theatre was a precursor to the Abbey Theatre.
		Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn in 1899, this theatre had presented a number of plays by the founders and other writers, including Padraic Colum.
		Categories: Theatres in the Republic of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Literary_Theatre (90 words)

	Contemporary Irish Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theatres and writers seek success by removing impediments to their mobility; yet, as Roches play makes clear, mobility is not simply a desirable value, but one of the most ruthless stratifying factors in global society.
		Theatres are increasingly being seen as a resource that residents of a locality may use to resist certain aspects of globalisation.
		This means that, when theatre companies appear to be more concerned about their place on the global stage than the needs of their local audiences, conflict may arise.
	www.writerscentre.ie /anthology/plonergan.html (5222 words)

	Irish Democrat : Features : The Abbey and the genius of Irish theatre
		Until the advent of an indigenous Irish theatre in 1889 — the year that the Irish Literary Theatre was founded — storytelling around the fireside, helped with song and music, was the principal dramatic outlet for the imaginations’of ordinary people.
		MacLiammoir, whose talents ran from acting and painting to writing in Irish and English and talking with wit and fluency in every European language, was an idolater of Yeats and came to Ireland to try and put into practice his own ideas on the theatre, derived in part from Yeats.
		It was not, one would have thought, the happiest time to start an art theatre; Ireland was not a land of milk and honey and had just emerged from an agonizing civil war, besides at the time the cinema was beginning to attract growing audiences.
	www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /features/irish-theatre (2817 words)

	Irish Theatre Index
		Charles Macklin - A biography of the Irish actor and dramatist.
		Dion Boucicault - A biography of the Irish dramatist and actor.
		William Butler Yeats - A biography of the Irish poet and dramatist.
	www.theatrehistory.com /irish (182 words)

	Irish Theatre Group of Belgium - Home page
		Established in 1979 the Irish Theatre Group (ITG) aims to bring engaging and entertaining community theatre to Brussels audiences.
		The Autumn production by the ITG is one of the classic Irish pieces of 20th century theatre.
		Moving towards performance is the second part of a two part theatre workshops that seeks to develop an understanding both of how to explore a given text and also how to build towards a performance.
	www.irishtheatregroup.be (524 words)

	IASIL - the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
		Irish Theatre Magazine is published four times a year, and contains news, reviews and features about Irish theatre. Recent contributors have included Helen Lojek, Chris Morash, Enda Walsh, Shaun Richards, Michael Billington and many others.
		An independent Irish publisher devoted exclusively to theatre. It has produced important new books on Tom Murphy, Frank McGuinness and Marina Carr. Its publication Theatre Stuff includes interviews with almost every major figure now working in Irish theatre, and is essential reading.
		Anyone working on contemporary Irish theatre should download the Council’s Views on Theatre in Ireland (1995), and the three Arts Plans are also significant. Also interesting are the annual reports, which include detailed financial statements about theatre funding.
	www.iasil.org /links/theatre.html (1687 words)

	Productions of the Irish Theatre Movement, 1899-1916 — www.greenwood.com
		By including Irish theatrical activity outside Dublin and by incorporating Irish-language as well as English-language productions, this volume provides information essential to the emergence of a more nuanced history of Irish theatre as a whole.
		The result is a newly diversified sense of the Irish Literary Renaissance in a reference work that will be essential for all scholars of the place and the period.
		Ritschel's work alters our view of the Irish Theatre Movement by giving us the valleys as well as the peaks, the fertile theatrical culture of long-forgotten plays as well as the canonical ones of Synge, Gregory, and Yeats.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=GR1744 (643 words)

	Chapter I: The Theatre in the Making.
		The only Dublin theatres, the Gaiety, the Royal, and the Queen's, were engaged far ahead, and in any case we could not [Page 17] have given them their price.
		Often near midnight, after the theatre had closed, I have gone round to the newspaper offices, asking as a favour that notices might be put in, for we could pay for but few advertisements and it was not always thought worth while to send [Page 47] a critic to our plays.
		For there was not always peace inside the theatre, and there came from time to time that breaking and rebuilding that is in the course of nature, and one must think all for good in the end.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/gregory/theatre/chapter-I.html (8403 words)

	Irish Theatre from Moytura's Irish Bookshop
		A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools.
		Brian Friel's book about the fall of the Irish culture through Language was set as one of the most popular plays of recent times.
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	www.moytura.com /irishbooks/theatre1.htm (1149 words)

	IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE OF PHILADELPHIA
		Although Lennox Robinson remains a figure in the background of Abbey Theatre history, his work truly reflects a life spent immersed in Irish theatre.
		The Theatre intends to present classic Irish dramatic works from the pens of such acclaimed playwrights as J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Brian Friel, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and others along with important recent works of drama written by a new generation of talented Irish and Irish-American playwrights, and often accompanied by Irish music and dance.
		The Irish Repertory Theatre of Philadelphia operates under the auspices of the Lion Theater located at St. Mark's Church in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.
	www.orgsites.com /pa/irishrepofphila (440 words)

	A History of Irish Theatre 1601—2000 - Cambridge University Press
		While most accounts of Irish theatre begin with the Abbey theatre, Chris Morash’s comprehensive study goes back three centuries earlier to Ireland’s first theatre.
		Morash also deals with aspects of Irish theatre often ignored, including audiences, performance styles, architecture, management and other aspects of Irish theatrical culture.
		A History of Irish Theatre 1601—2000 covers an astonishing range of plays, players and their audiences.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521641179 (584 words)

	OUP: Theatre of Nation: Levitas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Extending the range of the drama beyond the canonical works considered by most critics, and beyond Dublin to the influence of Cork and Ulster, The Theatre of Nation tackles many neglected and forgotten texts which through the circumstances of their reception are given new force.
		In this way, the lesser lights of the Irish revival illuminate unfamiliar aspects of familiar writers such as W. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. Synge, while discussions and disputes both private and public are engaged to comment upon the implications of the theatre movement for nationalist ambitions.
		The evolution of cultural and political nationalist groups such as Irish Ireland, the Gaelic League, and Sinn Fein is similarly examined to reveal a shifting terrain of nationalist opinion disturbed by issued of class, gender, and generation.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-925343-9 (681 words)

	Irish Theatre Players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		our audiences, a collection of Irish plays from the works of Synge, Lady Gregory, O’Casey, Friel and Hugh Leonard to the contemporary works of JB Keane, Dermot Bolger and Bernard Farrell to name but a few.
		From comedy, tragedy, drama and those between that defy category and with such a prolific body of work emerging from Ireland, the task of appeasing our audiences is often a difficult one.
		We welcome new members who want to learn about our theatre and what we have to offer, being part of a wonderful culture that is Irish theatre.
	www.irishtheatreplayers.com.au (376 words)

	The Irish Repertory Theatre - America's Best Irish Theatre! Located Off Broadway in NYC! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It subsequently transferred to Broadway's Garrick Theatre where it opened on October 30, 1905 to a sold-out audience, but was soon closed there as well and the cast was cited for "disorderly conduct." Shaw wrote in PLAYS PLEASANT AND UNPLEASANT, “MRS.
		Charlotte Moore, Director, is Co-Founder (with Ciarán O’Reilly) and Artistic Director of The Irish Repertory Theatre.
		The Irish Repertory Theatre has won the New York Drama Desk Award for “Excellence in Presenting Distinguished Irish Drama.” In 1995, The Irish Repertory Theatre moved to its present location on West 22nd Street, New York City, in which it is currently undertaking a capital campaign to purchase its theatre.
	www.irishrepertorytheatre.com (1381 words)

	McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The theatre section is a good place to find a sampling of what's playing in various cities of the world.
		Concentrating on theatres that are members of the Society of London Theatre: "the main 46 top theatres" of the West End.
		Audio theatre is what happened to Radio Drama when "the delivery vehicle abandoned the art form." This site includes news on over 125 practicing organizations, as well as contests on writing and producing audio theatre.
	www.stetson.edu /departments/csata/thr_guid.html (6836 words)

	The Irish Theatre Project, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I want to personally thank all of you for making 2005 another banner year for The Irish Theatre Project.
		If you would like to be on The Irish Theatre Project email list, please sign the guestbook at the bottom of this page.
		The fee shall be used for the prize money pool, to cover our duplication costs and to provide a small stipend to our script reading committee for the arduous task of giving each and every script a thorough read.
	www.daughtersoferin.com /itp.html (425 words)

	Shapeshifters Theatre Company
		As the building renovation crews restored the facility, the thespians recruited fellow theatre lovers and began bringing Irish history, folklore, and much loved writings to the stage.
		Shapeshifters Theatre Company continues to build on the tradition of Irish Theatre and expands the presentation of established and new works.
		Shapeshifters, the Irish American Heritage Center's resident theatre company since 1987, continues to build on the tradition of Irish Theatre and expanding the presentation of established and new works.
	www.irishamhc.com /shapeshifters.asp (487 words)

	Daughters of Erin: An Irish-American women's charitable organization
		Upon inception, these women envisioned an organization which would perpetuate Irish music, culture, history and customs, as well as providing assistance for those in need, regardless of race, creed or religion.
		In the last few years,through the efforts of one member in particular, an Irish Theatre Project has been created and established.
		Irish tradition brings the idea of offsetting sickness and invoking good luck on the occupants of the house in which the saint's cross is hung.
	www.daughtersoferin.com (404 words)

	Irish Repertory \| Chicago's Irish Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irish Repertory of Chicago is a division of Splinter Group Theatre Co., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
		Irish Repertory's parent company, Splinter Group, was best known to Chicago audiences for the series of Buckets O' Beckett festivals.
		Irish Repertory of Chicago IS on the Illinois Arts Council's 'ARTSTOUR' roster.
	www.irishrep.com /touring.html (405 words)

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