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SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 PROGRAMME
‘Irish
Drama: Making it New”
Subject
to Minor Changes and Additions
Correct as of 21 February 2012
Thursday
28 June
12.00 – 14.00
Registration, Avondale House.
14.00 – 15.15.
Lecture
Patrick Lonergan, ‘Druid and
Tom Murphy: A Theatre of Miracles’
15:15-15:45
Coffee
15.45– 17.00
Lecture:
Emilie Morin, ‘The New Occultisms’
18:00
Informal Evening for participants and
speakers. Venue: Jacobs Well, Rathdrum
Friday
29 June
9.15 – 10.30
Seminars
Seminar A: "Irish Theatre and Interculturalism" (1) (Charlotte
McIvor)
Seminar B: Synge’s Aran Islands (1) (Patrick
Lonergan)
10.30 – 11
Coffee
11.00-12.15
Seminars:
Seminar C: “Paul Murphy Intersections of
Class and Gender in Contemporary Irish Drama” (1)
Seminar D: “Synge and Contemporary Irish
Drama – Enda Walsh” (1) (Patrick Lonergan)
OR
Tour of Avondale House and Park (optional)
12.15 – 13.30
LUNCH
13.30- 14.45
Lecture
Charlotte McIvor, “A
Portrait of the Citizen as Artist: Community Arts and Experimentation in
Contemporary Irish Theatre.”
14.45 – 15.15
Coffee
15.15 – 16.30
Lecture
Paul Murphy, “O'Casey Redux”
16.45 – Busses depart for Bray.
20.00
Performance
Mermaid Arts Centre Bray. Performance to be
announced. Followed by post-show discussion. Approximate finishing time:
10.30.
Saturday
30 June
9.15 – 10.30
Seminars
Seminar C: Paul Murphy. Intersections of Class
and Gender in Contemporary Irish Drama (2)
Seminar D: Synge and Contemporary Irish Drama
– Mark O’Rowe (2) (Patrick Lonergan)
10.30 – 11
Coffee
11.00-12.15
Seminars:
Seminar A: "Irish Theatre and Interculturalism" (2) Charlotte
McIvor
Seminar B: Synge’s Aran Islands (1) (Patrick
Lonergan)
OR
Tour of Avondale House and Park (optional)
12.15 – 13.30
LUNCH
13.30 – 14.45
Lecture
Michael McAteer “Cultural
Stagnation and Creative Vitality: Yeats, Synge, Shaw”
14.45 – 15.15
Coffee
15.15 – 16.30
Louise Lowe in Conversation with Patrick Lonergan
16.45
Departure for Laragh.
(the group will be brought to the Wicklow Heather,
where they may purchase a meal if they wish).
20.00
Reading by Paul Murray. Brockagh
Resource Centre, Laragh.
Approximate finishing time and return to
Rathdrum: 21.30
Sunday
1 July
9.45– 11.00
Lecture:
Lauren Arrington, "The Drama of Revolution"
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee
11.30 – 13.00
Irish Theatre Practitioners in conversation
(full details to be announced)
13.00– Close of school
If
you have queries about the programme, please feel free to contact Patrick Lonergan, the Director of
the School at patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Lauren Arrington is lecturer at the Institute
of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool.
Her book, W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship,
and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the
Pence, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. She holds a
doctorate from the University of Oxford, was Adrian Research Fellow in English at Darwin College,
Cambridge
from 2008 to 2009, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in
2011.
Patrick
Lonergan has
been the Director of the Synge Summer School since 2008. He is a lecturer in
English and Drama at National University of Ireland, Galway.
His first book, Theatre and
Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era won the 2009 Theatre
Book Prize. He has also published The
Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays, Interactions – The Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007 (with
Nicholas Grene), and a collection of essays from the Synge Summer School
called Synge and His Influences.
His most recent book is The Theatre and
Films of Martin McDonagh.
Louise
Lowe is Artistic Director of ANU Productions. Her work includes Laundry (Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre
Festival 2011, Nominated for Best Director Award and Best Production Award,
Irish Times Theatre Awards), World's End Lane (Re-Viewed
- Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011, Absolut
Fringe 2010, Winner Best Off-site Production Award, Nominated Best Production
Award, Irish Times Theatre Awards), Fingal
Ronan (Robert
Wilson Watermill Center New York), Memory
Deleted (Winner Best Production Award Belltable),
Basin (Dublin Fringe Festival 2009,
Winner Best Supporting Actress Award Irish Times Theatre Awards, Winner Best
Actress Award Absolut Fringe), and many other
productions.
Louise
is a founding member and Creative Producer with Project Brand New and a
Project Arts Centre Catalyst Artist and is currently Associate Director with
Prime Cut Productions in Belfast.
As part of ANU she was one of the Irish Theatre
Institute’s ʻSix in the
Atticʼ initiative. The
recipient of CREATE Artist in the Community Award 2011 and Arts Council
Bursary Award 2011, she was also nominated for the Special Judges Award at
the Irish Times Theatre Awards for “For continuing to present
challenging theatre in unusual locations that illuminates darker, often
ignored parts of society and makes her audience question what theatre can
be.”
Louise
has been awarded residencies with the renowned Blast Theory UK and the prestigious International Artist
Residency Award at the Robert Wilson Watermill Centre, New York. She was the Resident Assistant
Director at the Abbey Theatre 2008 -2009 Louise trained at the Samuel Beckett
Centre, Trinity College Dublin and holds an M.A. (Directing) from Central
School of Speech and Drama, University
of London.
Michael McAteer is a senior lecturer at the School of English
and American Studies, Péter
Pázmány University, Budapest.
He is the author of Standish O’Grady, AE, Yeats (Irish Academic
Press, 2002) and Yeats and European Drama (Cambridge University Press,
2010). He has published a wide range of essays and book chapters on modern
Irish literature, drama and criticism. He is currently working on cultural
revivals in Ireland and Hungary from
the nineteenth century, as well as Shaw’s drama and the Irish theatre
movement.
Charlotte
McIvor is an Adjunct Lecturer at Santa Clara University in the Department of
Theatre and Dance and will commence as Lecturer in English (Emphasis in
Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies) at NUI Galway in July 2012. She
received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California,
Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Gender, Women and Sexuality. She has
also taught in the Critical Studies Program at California College
for the Arts. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Drama, Public and InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual
Culture and edited collections including Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture and Deviant Acts: Essays on Queer Performance.
She is working on a book manuscript entitled The New Interculturalism: Race, Gender,
Immigration and Performance in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
which argues that theatre and performance is at the center
of conceptualizing interculturalism as social
policy and aspiration in contemporary Ireland.
Emilie Morin is Lecturer in Modern British and Irish Theatre
in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.
Her research interests lie in Irish and European modernism and in
contemporary drama. She has published widely on Samuel Beckett, with a
particular focus on the Irish contexts which have informed his work. She is
the author of Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Paul Murphy is Head of Drama and Director of Research in the
Brian Friel Centre at Queen's University Belfast. He is former President of
the Irish Society for Theatre Research and is currently Secretary General for
the International Federation for Theatre Research. Paul's publication's
include Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish
Drama, 1899-1949 (Palgrave) and (with Melissa Sihra) The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish Theatre (Colin Smythe; Oxford University Press).
Paul
Murray was born in Dublin in 1975. A
former bookseller, he was educated at Trinity College Dublin and took a
master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
His novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the
Whitbread Prize for First Novel and nominated for The Kerry Irish Fiction
Award. His second novel, Skippy Dies, was longlisted
for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award,
the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and, in the US, the National Book Critic Circle’s
Prize. Most recently Skippy Dies has
been nominated for the International Impac Dublin
Literary Award. Despite being Irish, Paul was named one of 'Britain’s 20 Best Novelists
Under 40' by the Daily Telegraph.
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