Contemporary Irish Theatre - Local and Global Dimensions
The sixth annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference
National University of Ireland, Galway
17-18 April 2009
UPDATED 15 April 2009
Registration now closed
All events take place in Lecture Theatre IT-125, the Information Technology, NUI Galway
Friday, 17 April 2009
13.30-14.00: Registration, foyer, Information Technology Building.
14. 00 – 15.00: Irish Theatre: Local to Global
Chair: Ros Dixon (NUI Galway)
- Jose Lanters (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “DruidSynge in America”
- Werner Huber ( University of Vienna): “‘What's the news from Kilcrobally?’ On the Reception of Contemporary Irish Theatre (especially Martin McDonagh) in Germany and Austria”
15.00 – 16.00: Irish Dramatists: Local and Global
Chair: Riana O’Dwyer (NUI Galway)
- Elizabeth Kuti: ‘Writing for an Irish audience? Nationality and the Playwright’
- Ursula Rani Sarma: ‘Audience expectation and the expected audience - writing for the international stage’
16.00-16.30: Coffee
16.30 – 18.00 : Keynote address: Christopher Morash (NUI Maynooth) – ‘The Spaces of Irish Theatre’
Chair: Nicholas Grene ( Trinity College Dublin)
18:00: Moore Institute
Launch of Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era by Patrick Lonergan by Dr Lionel Pilkington (Acting Head, School of Humanities, NUI Galway)
20.00
Visit to Town Hall Theatre for Druid Theatre production of Enda Walsh’s New Electric Ballroom. (delegates should purchase own tickets)
Saturday, 18 April
9.30- 10.30: Northern Irish Drama: International Perspectives
Chair: John P Harrington
- Mark Phelan ( Queens University Belfast): ‘Global Routes and Local Roots: Post-Conflict Theatre in the North’?
- Brenda Winter ( Queens University Belfast): ‘Charabanc, Cultural Capital and the Men of Recognised Credit’.
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee
11.00- 12.00 Beckett and Friel: Ireland and the World
Chair: Emilie Pine
- Anna McMullan (Queen’s University, Belfast): Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa: at the crossroads of the local and global
- Sinead Mooney (NUI Galway): ‘Samuel Beckett: 'Famous throughout the Civilised World and the Irish Free State’
12.00 - 13.00: Communities – Local, National, International
Chair: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway)
- Christopher Murray ( University College Dublin): ‘Beyond the Passion Machine: Roddy Doyle, the New Playboy, and Multiculturalism'.
- David Grant (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Orality and the Ethics of Ownership in Community-based Drama’
13.00 - 14.30: Lunch (Moore Institute)
14.30 - 15.30 Irish Theatre: Global to Local
Chair: Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway)
- Rhona Trench (IT Sligo) “‘The Last Time We Saw You, You Looked So Much Older’: Blue Raincoat, the west of Ireland and the Third Policeman.”
- James Moran ( University of Nottingham) ‘ Ireland Onstage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre'.
15.30 – 17.00: Roundtable Discussion: The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project
With Nicholas Grene, John Harrington, and Martine Pelletier
Chair: Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)