David Cregan Livres

A country comedy from the author of Nice Dorothy

This pantomime features a blend of traditional elements alongside original characterizations and innovative staging. It includes witty and melodic songs, making it a vibrant theatrical experience. Designed for a large, flexible cast, it promises to engage audiences with its imaginative approach while celebrating the classic pantomime format.

Combining traditional pantomime elements with fresh characterizations, this work features imaginative staging and catchy, witty songs. Designed for London's Theatre Royal, Stratford East, it showcases a diverse cast of five women and seven men, promising a vibrant and entertaining experience.

Blending traditional pantomime elements with fresh characterizations and creative staging, this work offers a lively theatrical experience. It features witty, melodic songs and is designed for a large, flexible cast, making it suitable for diverse performances. The production is crafted specifically for London's Theatre Royal, Stratford East, ensuring a unique and engaging experience for audiences.

This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today. Inside there are provocative chapters from scholars, theatre producers, and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast. Cathleen Ni Houlihan will never be the same!

This book is the broad application of queer theories to the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness, the only author in Ireland to consistently utilize gay and lesbian themes in his writing. McGuinness continually represents sexual difference in his character development in a way that previous Irish authors have not. In particular McGuinness portrays homosexual protagonists in his dramas, allowing the queer the narrative prerogative, not merely a secondary role in the formation of theatrical perspective. Often it is the homosexual who tells the story or alters the plot through his or her alternative perspective. This book not only analyzes the queer in McGuinness's work, but also contributes to a widening of the conversation and criticism on Irish theatre in general. Its implementation of the internationally recognized paradigm of analysis, queer theory, is cutting-edge in its contribution to the general field of Irish studies as well. As a result of its two-fold agenda of theatrical and cultural analysis, this book not only brings together theories of the queer and the theatre of McGuinness, but it also maps the way in which this queer dramaturgy intersects with contemporary Irish society as it faces a new era of cultural re-invention.