Sara Brady
Biographic Data
| ID | 3881032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Brady |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Brady |
| SIGNATURE | BRADY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sara Brady is Lecturer in Drama Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is coeditor with Fintan Walsh of Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (Palgrave, 2009). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Performance Studies Reader
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. A…
Spy House
How does the performance of an actor differ from that of a spy? Is the successful spy transformed, not simply transported? Is playing a role no longer playing for the effective spy? These questions touch on the distinctions in performance theory articulated for decades by Richard Schechner as ‘transportation’ and ‘transformation’. First outlined in his 1981 essay ‘Performers and spectators transported and transformed’, Schechner’s theory of where…
Terror, but also hope, in the everyday
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror
Crossroads
It Don't Gitmo Better”
A reflection on Coney Island's Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an animatronic installation by Steve Powers that gives viewers a chance to experience the Bush administration—approved “enhanced interrogation technique”—and for only a dollar, folks
Cargo Sofia
Reappropriating the iconography of “America” as portrayed in Melville's Moby-Dick, the New York-based Radiohole offers in Fluke what Steve Luber dubs a hyperreal performance. The hyperreal is also what happened to Sara Brady when she rode through Dublin with the international trio Rimini Protokoll as they reimagined the journey as a trek from Bulgaria to Ireland. The last Critical Act takes place in Tangier where Khalid Amine found Zoubeir Ben Bo…
Home and Away
Home and Away:The Gaelic Games, Gender, and Migration Sara Brady The creation in 1884 of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) contributed to a larger Irish nationalist effort at the turn of the twentieth century to distinguish Ireland from Britain through language, literature, drama, and other expressive culture. According to the nationalist rhetoric, Gaelic games needed to take the place of such contemporary diversions as cricket, polo, tennis,…
Books
September 01 2003 A History of Irish Theatre 1600–2000 A History of Irish Theatre 1600–2000.. By MorashChristopher Sara Brady Sara Brady PhD candidate in performance studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU and Editor of Foilsiú, an interdisciplinary journal of Irish studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sara Brady PhD candidate in performance studies at Tisch School of the Arts/…
Books
March 01 2002 The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater; Community Theatre: Global Perspectives The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater. By CohenLeah Hager . New York: Viking. 2001; 234 pp.; illustrations. $24.95 paper.Community Theatre: Global Perspectives. By ErvenEugene van . New York: Routledge. 2001; 269 pp. $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Sara Brady Sara Brady PhD candidate in the De…
Touchstone—How Radical Is Radical
September 01 2001 Touchstone—How Radical Is Radical? Mark McKenna, Mark McKenna Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Brady, Sara Brady Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Touchstone Theatre Touchstone Theatre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark McKenna Artistic Director and Ense…
Welded to the Ladle
When big steel left Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, thousands of workers were out of jobs. A community-based theatre project adapts Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound to recollect and deal with the situation. But is Bethlehem Steel off the hook
The Performance Studies Reader
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. A…
Welded to the Ladle
When big steel left Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, thousands of workers were out of jobs. A community-based theatre project adapts Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound to recollect and deal with the situation. But is Bethlehem Steel off the hook
Touchstone—How Radical Is Radical
September 01 2001 Touchstone—How Radical Is Radical? Mark McKenna, Mark McKenna Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Brady, Sara Brady Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Touchstone Theatre Touchstone Theatre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark McKenna Artistic Director and Ense…
Books
March 01 2002 The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater; Community Theatre: Global Perspectives The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater. By CohenLeah Hager . New York: Viking. 2001; 234 pp.; illustrations. $24.95 paper.Community Theatre: Global Perspectives. By ErvenEugene van . New York: Routledge. 2001; 269 pp. $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Sara Brady Sara Brady PhD candidate in the De…
Books
September 01 2003 A History of Irish Theatre 1600–2000 A History of Irish Theatre 1600–2000.. By MorashChristopher Sara Brady Sara Brady PhD candidate in performance studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU and Editor of Foilsiú, an interdisciplinary journal of Irish studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sara Brady PhD candidate in performance studies at Tisch School of the Arts/…
Cargo Sofia
Reappropriating the iconography of “America” as portrayed in Melville's Moby-Dick, the New York-based Radiohole offers in Fluke what Steve Luber dubs a hyperreal performance. The hyperreal is also what happened to Sara Brady when she rode through Dublin with the international trio Rimini Protokoll as they reimagined the journey as a trek from Bulgaria to Ireland. The last Critical Act takes place in Tangier where Khalid Amine found Zoubeir Ben Bo…
Home and Away
Home and Away:The Gaelic Games, Gender, and Migration Sara Brady The creation in 1884 of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) contributed to a larger Irish nationalist effort at the turn of the twentieth century to distinguish Ireland from Britain through language, literature, drama, and other expressive culture. According to the nationalist rhetoric, Gaelic games needed to take the place of such contemporary diversions as cricket, polo, tennis,…
Crossroads
It Don't Gitmo Better”
A reflection on Coney Island's Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an animatronic installation by Steve Powers that gives viewers a chance to experience the Bush administration—approved “enhanced interrogation technique”—and for only a dollar, folks
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror
Terror, but also hope, in the everyday
Spy House
How does the performance of an actor differ from that of a spy? Is the successful spy transformed, not simply transported? Is playing a role no longer playing for the effective spy? These questions touch on the distinctions in performance theory articulated for decades by Richard Schechner as ‘transportation’ and ‘transformation’. First outlined in his 1981 essay ‘Performers and spectators transported and transformed’, Schechner’s theory of where…
The Performance Studies Reader
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. A…
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