Miriam Haughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3666445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Haughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Haughton |
| SIGNATURE | HAUGHTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2054-995X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Theatre of Louise Lowe
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Sean O'Casey in Context
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On Invasion
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Y-Performance, Care and Intergenerational Response
How can performance enact care for bodies rendered vulnerable, ungrievable, and unknowable to a certain extent, particularly in political climates that challenge the emergence of institutional histories? This essay offers a critical reflection on how ‘care’ manifest through the processes of performance in a recent devised university production, Nochtaithe (Unveiled), created as an artistic response to testimonies from survivors of the Tuam Mother…
Think Outside My Box
This article argues that the targeting of certain narratives of womanhood, those deemed ‘respectable’ and ‘responsible’, operated as a key performative and affective strategy during the Irish 2018 Referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution. When the Referendum to ‘repeal the 8th’ amendment was announced, both pro-choice and pro-life campaigns affiliated themselves with idealised imagery, narratives and performative strategies that …
Irish Theatre in the 21st Century
My research examines the staging contexts of these case studies, locating them among the traumatic histories they were drawn from, which centre on women saying, sometimes loudly, and sometimes quietly, #MeToo. However, they said this traditionally in isolated historical contexts, dominated by the overwhelming power of the Irish institutions of church, family, and nation, and without the immediate collective community that one can access online to…
Flirting with the postmodern
This essay theorises a collage of theatrical, ideological and political moments reflecting notable shifts in thinking, theatre, and social practice pervading Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Recent years have witnessed a radicalisation of theatre practices resulting in a greater focus and emphasis directed at the live receptive experience; the “audience”/“spectator”/“participant”. At the same time, seismic changes in the socio-cultural…
Woman’s final confession
In the dramaturgy of contemporary Irish playwright Marina Carr, we have encountered the tragic lives of her female protagonists, which ultimately lead to their demise. In Woman and Scarecrow, however, the play opens at the point of death and the performance maps Woman’s process of dying rather than her experience of living. Her experience of life, it seems, is more tragic than her death, as the frequent hoovering attests. Through Woman’s confessi…
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Woman’s final confession
In the dramaturgy of contemporary Irish playwright Marina Carr, we have encountered the tragic lives of her female protagonists, which ultimately lead to their demise. In Woman and Scarecrow, however, the play opens at the point of death and the performance maps Woman’s process of dying rather than her experience of living. Her experience of life, it seems, is more tragic than her death, as the frequent hoovering attests. Through Woman’s confessi…
Flirting with the postmodern
This essay theorises a collage of theatrical, ideological and political moments reflecting notable shifts in thinking, theatre, and social practice pervading Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Recent years have witnessed a radicalisation of theatre practices resulting in a greater focus and emphasis directed at the live receptive experience; the “audience”/“spectator”/“participant”. At the same time, seismic changes in the socio-cultural…
Irish Theatre in the 21st Century
My research examines the staging contexts of these case studies, locating them among the traumatic histories they were drawn from, which centre on women saying, sometimes loudly, and sometimes quietly, #MeToo. However, they said this traditionally in isolated historical contexts, dominated by the overwhelming power of the Irish institutions of church, family, and nation, and without the immediate collective community that one can access online to…
Y-Performance, Care and Intergenerational Response
How can performance enact care for bodies rendered vulnerable, ungrievable, and unknowable to a certain extent, particularly in political climates that challenge the emergence of institutional histories? This essay offers a critical reflection on how ‘care’ manifest through the processes of performance in a recent devised university production, Nochtaithe (Unveiled), created as an artistic response to testimonies from survivors of the Tuam Mother…
Think Outside My Box
This article argues that the targeting of certain narratives of womanhood, those deemed ‘respectable’ and ‘responsible’, operated as a key performative and affective strategy during the Irish 2018 Referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution. When the Referendum to ‘repeal the 8th’ amendment was announced, both pro-choice and pro-life campaigns affiliated themselves with idealised imagery, narratives and performative strategies that …
On Invasion
We live in a world of unpredictability, fracture and powerlessness. Acts of violence, invasion and oppression, both seen and unseen, pervade all aspects of life and threaten the viability of the pl
The Theatre of Louise Lowe
Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer/director, working in Ireland and internationally. She is the Co-Artistic Director of ANU Productions, established with Owen Boss in Dublin in 2009. Lowe is known for facilitating and creating moments of interior reckoning for audiences through immersive performance techniques. These techniques engag…
Sean O'Casey in Context
Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. He is the most frequently performed playwright in the history of the Irish National Theatre, and his work is often revived onstage elsewhere. O'Casey is also widely studied in schools, colleges, and universities in the English-speaking world. This book offers a new contextualisation of this famous writer's work, revisiting his association with Irish nationalism, historical revisionism, and cele…
Irish and British Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works)