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  • Chapter 8 - Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre

  • from Part II - Spaces
  • Edited by Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley, Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 152-167

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the ways in which Act Two of Sean O’Casey’s 1926 play, The Plough and the Stars, has appeared onstage at the Abbey theatre between 1991 and 2016. The chapter shows how these four versions of O’Casey’s script navigate a set of contemporary concerns, from historical revisionism, through the Celtic Tiger boom, to the economic crash, and into the era when various kinds of institutional and state abuse have been revealed. Shifts in performance style also reveal changes in thinking about theatrical form in Ireland and help illuminate the role of the Irish national theatre during a period when other nearby national theatres have come to operate in profoundly different ways.