TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lisa Fitzpatrick
AU  - Maria Kurdi
PY  - 2022
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781800796270
TI  - ‘I love craft. I love the word’
T2  - The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan
DO  - 10.3726/b18844
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1175491
N2  - Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her plays produced in Ireland, the UK, the USA and across mainland Europe. Her work explores issues of personal and communal identity, bringing forward the difficulties that arise for individuals when accepted narratives of identity diverge from contemporary experience. In this collection of ten original essays, and an interview with the playwright, the authors address the ways in which Kinahan’s plays interrogate and seek to renegotiate value systems of family, class, ethnicity, age and gender in the 21st century neoliberal, secular state, with an emphasis on experimental forms and the renewal of the genre of the family play. Theoretical frameworks rely on feminism, intersectionality, genre studies, and age studies, among other approaches, by authors from Ireland, the UK, Hungary, the USA, Nigeria, Canada and Taiwan.
LA  - English
ER  -