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Informationen zum Autor Thomas works as a director, dramaturg, lecturer and journalist. He teaches contemporary theatre practices at National Universityof Ireland, Galway, and The Lir Academy for Performing Arts, Dublin. He is Literary Manager with Druid. Phillip McMahon is a playwright and theatre director based in Dublin. His most recent play COME ON HOME, directed by Olivier Award Winner Rachel O'Riordan, played a sold out season at the Abbey Theatre Dublin in 2018. The Times (UK) said: "McMahon's dark-humoured, powerful play says more about Ireland than reams of opinion columns." COME ON HOME was nominated for Best New Play for the 2019 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. Phillip's play, TOWN IS DEAD, also for the Abbey Theatre, was nominated for five Irish Theatre Awards in 2017. Over ten years, he has produced a number of plays, performances, a book and a film with drag superstar and activist Panti Bliss. Phillip was director, deviser and dramaturg on Panti's live shows IN THESE SHOES?, ALL DOLLED UP, A WOMAN IN PROGRESS, ROOTING FOR AUSTRALIA and HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES. Phillip is one half of pop culture outfit and theatre renegades THISISPOPBABY, based in Dublin. Phillip is an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Klappentext An anthology of eight important new plays, each of which is concerned with questions of identity and unfinished business in Ireland. Includes: HEROIN by Grace Dyas, Trade by Mark O'Halloran, The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley, Pineapple by Phillip McMahon, I by Amy Conroy, The Big Deal edited by Una McKevitt, Oedipus Loves You by Simon Doyle and Gavin Quinn, and The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins. Vorwort This anthology comprises eight new plays by Irish playwrights that premiered between the years 2007-11. Zusammenfassung HEROIN by Grace Dyas, Trade by Mark O’Halloran, The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley, Pineapple by Phillip McMahon, I ? Alice ? I by Amy Conroy, The Big Deal edited by Una McKevitt, Oedipus Loves You by Simon Doyle & Gavin Quinn, The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil WatkinsEdited and introduced by Thomas ConwayThis anthology comprises eight new plays by Irish playwrights premièred between the years 2006 and 2011.These playwrights ride, however, in no slipstream of the identifiably Irish play. Here, the enterprise of playwriting itself is being re-imagined. Here, above all else, is a commitment to becoming in the theatre.For all that, each play is concerned with what is unfinished business in Ireland. How astonishing, then, that these plays should revolve for the most part around identity and, in particular, sexual identity. How identity comes into play, how we open up the field of play, how we raise into collective experience the exercise of that play – the urgency in the playwriting would appear to lie precisely here.We can read from the historical moment – from a narrative emphasizing an economic bubble and its hangover – into these plays. Or we can take these playwrights at their word and observe lives lived at the contour of identities in the making. It is for us as readers, just as we have as theatre-goers – frequently scandalized, enthralled, shamed, appalled, unburdened, tickled pink – to decide. Inhaltsverzeichnis "Introduction 7 HEROIN 15 by Grace Dyas Trade 47 by Mark OA f Halloran The Art of Swimming 83 by Lynda Radley Pineapple 113 by Phillip McMahon I oe Alice oe I 185 by Amy Conroy The Big Deal 221 Edited by Una McKevitt Oedipus Loves You 251 by Simon Doyle and Gavin Quinn The Year of Magical Wanking 291 by Neil Watkins Contributor Biographies 329" ...
