With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Dublin Theatre Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad.

For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of Ireland's most important cultural events, bringing countless events, bringing countless new Irish plays to the world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important international theatre companies and artists. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad. This book includes specially commissioned memoirs from past organizers and observers of the Festival, offering a unique perspective on the controversies and successes that have marked the event's history. An especially valuable feature of the volume, also, is a complete listing the shows that have appeared at the Festival from 1957 to 2008. Contributors: Lewis Clohessy, Tanya Dean, Ros Dixon, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Lisa Fitzpatrick, David Grant, John P. Harrington, Sara Keating, Thomas Kilroy, Peter Kuch, Cathy Leeney, Fergus Linehan, Tony Ó Dálaigh, Fintan O'Toole, Lionel Pilkington, Emilie Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Shaun Richards, Carmen Szabó. With a preface by Loughlin Deegan.

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For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of Ireland s most important cultural events, bringing countless events, bringing countless new Irish plays to the world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important international theatre companies and artists. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Festival s achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad. This book includes specially commissioned memoirs from past organizers and observers of the Festival, offering a unique perspective on the controversies and successes that have marked the event s history. An especially valuable feature of the volume, also, is a complete listing the shows that have appeared at the Festival from 1957 to 2008. Contributors: Lewis Clohessy, Tanya Dean, Ros Dixon, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Lisa Fitzpatrick, David Grant, John P. Harrington, Sara Keating, Thomas Kilroy, Peter Kuch, Cathy Leeney, Fergus Linehan, Tony Ó Dálaigh, Fintan O Toole, Lionel Pilkington, Emilie Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Shaun Richards, Carmen Szabó. With a preface by Loughlin Deegan.

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Loughlin Deegan: Preface--Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan: Introduction: the Festival at Fifty--Thomas Kilroy: PART ONE: ESSAYS -- A Playwright s Festival -- Lionel Pilkington: Theatre, Sexuality, and the State: Tennessee Williams s The Rose Tattoo at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957 -- Sara Keating: Irish Language Theatre at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Emilie Pine: Leonard s Progress: Hugh Leonard at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Shaun Richards: Subjects of the machinery of citizenship : The Death and Resurrection of Mr Rocheand The Gentle Island at the Dublin Theatre Festival Interactions -- West Meets East: Russian Productions at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957 2006--Ros Dixon: Tom Murphy s The Sanctuary Lamp at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1975 and 2001 -- Alexandra Poulain: Patrick Mason: A Director s Festival Golden Fish -- Cathy Leeney: In-dependency: Rough Magic and the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Tanya Dean: Festivals National and International:The Beckett Festival -- John P. Harrington: From Ex Libris to Ex Machina Two Shakespearean Case Studies at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Carmen Szabó: An Antipodean Epic: Cloudstreet at the Dublin Theatre Festival -- Peter Kuch: Bogland Parodies : The Midlands Setting in Marina Carr and Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre -- Lisa Fitzpatrick: The Dublin Theatre Festival: Social and Cultural Contexts -- Fintan O Toole: PART TWO: MEMOIRS AND PRODUCTIONS -- An Tóstal and the First Dublin Theatre Festival: a Personal Memoir -- Christopher Fitz-Simon: Production History Part One: 1957 1970 -- Dublin Theatre Festival: 1984 1989 -- Lewis Clohessy: Production History Part Two: 1971 1985 -- Present Tense or It shouldn t happen to a festival programmer! -- David Grant: Production History Part Three: 1986 1994 -- Dublin Theatre Festival in the 1990s -- Tony O Dálaigh: Production History Part Four: 1995 2008 -- Dublin Theatre Festival in the Twenty-First Century -- Fergus Linehan: Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.