WELCOME TO THE 2009 SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL

28 JUNE - 3 JULY 2009

SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 FULL PROGRAMME  

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Sunday 28 June

12.00 -15.00: Registration at the Annexe, Avondale House, Rathdrum

17.30 Official opening of the 2009 School at Avondale House by Professor Nicholas Grene

Monday 29 June

09.30 Lecture: Melissa Sihra: ‘The Eye of the Dream: Marina Carr’s Marble’

11.15 Lecture: Patrick Lonergan: ‘The Ethics of Irish Storytelling – Synge and Tom Murphy, Beckett and Martin McDonagh’

14.00 – 15.30: Irish Writers in Conversation: Billy Roche

16.00: Synge Country Tour (including Afternoon Tea at Glenmalure Lodge)

Tuesday 30 June

09.30: Lecture: Lionel Pilkington, ‘Synge and Ireland’s Performance Culture’.

11.15: Lecture: Mary Burke: 'After Synge: 100 years of the "stage tinker"',

16.15 (approx): Dublin Theatre outing – travel to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin for evening performance

Wednesday 1 July

11.15: Lecture: Aoife Monks, "Kiss Me, I'm Irish: Performing Gender in St Patrick's Day parades and Irish Dance Shows"

14.30 – 16.00: to be confirmed

20.00 Reading by playwright and novelist Joseph O’Connor (venue: Brockagh Centre, Laragh)

Thursday 2 July

9.30 Lecture: Alexandra Poulain, ‘Synge and Tom Murphy’

11.15 Karen Fricker in conversation, ‘Irish Theatre Criticism Today ’.

Friday 3 July

09.30 Lecture: Paige Reynolds, "Synge's Things: Material Culture in Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama"

11.15 Lecture: PJ Mathews. ‘Re-Thinking Synge’

14.00 – 15.30 Irish Writers in Conversation: Christina Reid

19.30 Synge Summer School Closing Dinner

If you have queries about the programme, please feel free to contact Patrick Lonergan, the Director of the School at patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie