Clare Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 5144483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0977-2651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Moving Parts
Collapsing time
This article examines Kabosh Theatre Company’s production of Dominic Montague’s A Queer Céilí at the Marty Forsythe , in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during its first run in March 2019. Based on archival research and personal accounts of a weekend surrounding the October 1983 National Union of Students Lesbian and Gay Conference in Belfast, the play depicts a moment of lesbian and gay activism largely neglected in critical and popular historical ac…
Commemoration, ambivalent attachments and catharsis
This article analyses David play, Cyprus Avenue , in which Eric, a middle-aged Ulster Unionist, becomes convinced that his infant granddaughter is Gerry Adams. Ireland is a Belfast-born actor and playwright whose works – Can’t Forget about You (2013) and Ulster American (2018) – have recently generated critical acclaim and debate. Cyprus Avenue , directed by Vicky Featherstone, opened in February at the Abbey Theatre Dublin as part of the theatre…
Marina Carr’s Hecuba
This paper focuses on Marina Carr’s 2015 adaptation of Hecuba for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hecuba sees Carr return to a fascination with Greek tragedy, difficult female characters and reimagining foundational myths. Of all Euripides’ plays Hecuba has rarely been popular, yet the themes Carr prises open – of violence, desire, gendered experience and the politics of perspective – are acutely topical. Indeed, Hecuba seemed to anticipate the fr…
Irish Drama since the 1990s
While writers such as Friel and Murphy seemed to provide a certain continuity in the closing years of the twentieth century, a new generation of writers emerged in the 1990s for whom the Irish dramatic tradition seemed less an inheritance than a foil to be played against (or with) or, in some cases, an irrelevance. For instance, while Martin McDonagh’s work was sometimes associated with British ‘in-yer-face’ theatre of the 1990s, to some commenta…
Queer notions
Queer notions: new plays and performances from Ireland." Irish Studies Review, 19(4), pp. 466–467
A Micronarrative Imperative
In the late 1990s Conor McPherson's work emerged on the London theatre scene as a timely counterpoint, or perhaps remedy, to the excesses of what Aleks Sierz labelled ‘In-Yer-Face’ theatre. Much su
Running amuck
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Running amuck
A Micronarrative Imperative
In the late 1990s Conor McPherson's work emerged on the London theatre scene as a timely counterpoint, or perhaps remedy, to the excesses of what Aleks Sierz labelled ‘In-Yer-Face’ theatre. Much su
Queer notions
Queer notions: new plays and performances from Ireland." Irish Studies Review, 19(4), pp. 466–467
Irish Drama since the 1990s
While writers such as Friel and Murphy seemed to provide a certain continuity in the closing years of the twentieth century, a new generation of writers emerged in the 1990s for whom the Irish dramatic tradition seemed less an inheritance than a foil to be played against (or with) or, in some cases, an irrelevance. For instance, while Martin McDonagh’s work was sometimes associated with British ‘in-yer-face’ theatre of the 1990s, to some commenta…
Marina Carr’s Hecuba
This paper focuses on Marina Carr’s 2015 adaptation of Hecuba for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hecuba sees Carr return to a fascination with Greek tragedy, difficult female characters and reimagining foundational myths. Of all Euripides’ plays Hecuba has rarely been popular, yet the themes Carr prises open – of violence, desire, gendered experience and the politics of perspective – are acutely topical. Indeed, Hecuba seemed to anticipate the fr…
Collapsing time
This article examines Kabosh Theatre Company’s production of Dominic Montague’s A Queer Céilí at the Marty Forsythe , in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during its first run in March 2019. Based on archival research and personal accounts of a weekend surrounding the October 1983 National Union of Students Lesbian and Gay Conference in Belfast, the play depicts a moment of lesbian and gay activism largely neglected in critical and popular historical ac…
Commemoration, ambivalent attachments and catharsis
This article analyses David play, Cyprus Avenue , in which Eric, a middle-aged Ulster Unionist, becomes convinced that his infant granddaughter is Gerry Adams. Ireland is a Belfast-born actor and playwright whose works – Can’t Forget about You (2013) and Ulster American (2018) – have recently generated critical acclaim and debate. Cyprus Avenue , directed by Vicky Featherstone, opened in February at the Abbey Theatre Dublin as part of the theatre…
Moving Parts
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