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Tom Murphy's "Bailegangaire", premiered by Druid Theatre, Galway, in 1985 has its origins in a three-part TV drama which Murphy started planning in 1981. Of the three scripts only one, "Brigit", was screened by RTÉ in 1988, "The Contest" became [...]![]()
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In 1965 Tom Murphy was commissioned by BBC Television to write a play, "The Patriot Game", to be broadcast in the following year on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising. However, it was finally not made as the estimated [...]![]()
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Shaun RICHARDS, Auteur |The article reads the work of J.M. Synge, especially The Playboy of the Western World (1907), within the context of fin-de-siècle Paris's fusion of art and anarchism of which Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (1896) is the best-known theatrical expression.[...]![]()
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Shaun RICHARDS, Auteur |Bruce Stewart's critique of Declan Kiberd's Inventing Ireland identified Kiberd's agenda as a modern variant on Douglass Hyde »s 1892 call for the « De-Anglicisation » of Ireland with Kiberd, as Hyde before him, « speaking the language of[...]![]()
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Shaun RICHARDS, Auteur |What appears now to be the penultimate production of the Field Day Theatre Company, Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, was produced in Derry in the Autumn of 1990. A version of Sophocles' play Philoctetes, The Cure at Troy is a tran[...]