Theatre & Dramatic Art

Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig. Cavorting naked through the countryside painted green. Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head. These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.

This book concerns the foundation and development of the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, which has recently celebrated fifty years of performances.

Pearse wrote and produced eleven plays and pageants that drew widespread attention at the time of their first production and wrote widely on theatre, performance and the politics of identity.

2017 1st Edition Hardback

Features 34 productions of new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics.

The dramatic, poignant and revealing family biography of five generations of the Redgraves, one of the greatest acting dynasties of all time. 

This timely collection of essays, Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland since the 1990s, examines the role of Irish documentary in film and television as Ireland experienced dramatic shifts in its social and political make-up in recent decades.