Ireland's Drama in British Cities |
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Programme
Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, All Saints Campus
All conference presentations will be delivered in LT7, on the ground floor of the Manton building.
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Thursday April 15
12:30
Registration opens in the Atrium, ground floor of the Manton building
14.00-15.00
KEYNOTE: Mary Hickman: Diasporic Identifications and Transethnic Connections
15.00-15.30 Tea
15.30-17.45- Aoife Monks: "Out of Time": Anachronism and Authenticity in Performances of Irishness
- Gerry Smyth: Musical Stereotyping and the "Text-as-Performance": The
Case of The Pogues - Mike Cronin: Performing Irishness on English Streets: St Patrick's Day as Spectacle
Friday April 16
09.00-10.30
- Patrick O'Sullivan, Recalling IRISH NIGHT (1987, 88) - a stage play about and for the Irish of England
- Claire Connolly: Boucicault in Bangor
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00KEYNOTE: Patrick Mason: Finding a Voice: Making Theatre in Ireland12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30
- Jim Moran: William McCready's Grand National Pantomime
- Patrick Lonergan: Re-Imagining Ireland, Occupying Iraq: Colin Teevan's How Many Miles to Basra
14.45-16.15
- Catherine Rees: An Irishman Abroad: In Bruges and in the West End – Martin McDonagh’s Diasporic Career.
- Holly Maples: Staging 'A Sense of Ireland': The Art of Social Healing in 1980s Britain
16.15-16.45 Tea
16.45-17.45ROUNDTABLE: Nicholas Grene, Shaun Richards, Karen Fricker, Vic Merriman
(plus delegates!)