"A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference.Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography. Many issues feature a special section curated around a special theme or topic; for 2017 that special section focus on histories of new writing ..."
Stanislavski in Ireland(Updated) Focus at Fifty (Carysfort Press Ltd.) by StevenDedalusBurch, Brian Mcavera Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2019 by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-78874-819-3, ISBN: 1-78874-819-0
"Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty is an insight into Ireland’s only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs and photographs, the book tracks the theatre from its inception, detailing the period under its founder Deirdre O’Connell and then the period following Joe Devlin’s arrival as its new artistic director. Many of Ireland’s leading theatre and film artists trained and worked ..."
Breaking Boundaries(Updated) An Anthology of Original Plays from The Focus Theatre (Carysfort Press Ltd.) by StevenDedalusBurch Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2019 by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-78874-752-3, ISBN: 1-78874-752-6
"Almost from the beginning, since 1970, new plays became part of the Focus’s repertory. Starting with Peter Terson’s Mooney and His Caravan, and Declan Burke-Kennedy’s The Trespasser in 1973, new plays continued to be produced and some, such as actor-playwright Ena May (Out of the Beehive 1987; She’s Your Mother, Too, You Know 1988; A Close Shave With the Devil 2001), finding an artistic home for their works, though not in the numbers th ..."
"For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights some distinct facet of the genre--the genre that Woody Allen has said eats at the children’s table . . . even in the world of scholarship. The essays gathered in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of ..."
"To honor the life and times of The Focus Theatre, this new title provides an insight into Ireland's only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs, and photographs, Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty tracks the theatre from its inception. Many of Ireland's leading theatre and film artists trained and worked at Focus, including Gabriel Byrne, Joan Bergin, Olwen Fouere, Brendan Coyle ..."
"These seven plays all exhibit a range in styles: Lewis Carroll's fantastical world; a couple on the brink of a philandering weekend disaster; a one-man show about Jonathan Swift; an examination of two shoplifters and the would-be writer who ..."
"he selectively edits APW's writings, commenting in a note (without benefit of
printing the actual words of APW) that O' Casey had "obviously gotten under [
APW's] skin."56 In fairness to Hogan, in his later writings he further identifies APW
as, briefly, the Abbey's ... though without any obvious reason, APW's invisibility
can be noticed in histories of the ITGWU and Larkin. In Donal Nevin's magisterial
and iconographic biographical ..."