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For the sake of sanity : doing things with humour in Irish performance / edited by Eric Weitz.

Title
  1. For the sake of sanity : doing things with humour in Irish performance / edited by Eric Weitz.
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  1. Dublin, Ireland : Carysfort Press, 2014.

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Additional authors
  1. Weitz, Eric
  2. Weitz, Eric (Drama professor)
Description
  1. viii, 233 pages; 23 cm
Alternative title
  1. Humour in Irish performance
  2. Irish performance
  3. Doing things with humour in Irish performance
Subject
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  2. Irish wit and humor
  3. Comedians > Ireland
  4. Stand-up comedy > Ireland
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. The masks of Hugh Leonard: Da as an Irish comedy / Christopher Murray -- Dead funny: mortality and comic comeuppance in Tom Mac Intyre's Only an Apple / Marie Kelly -- 'Flann O'Brien's Dublin drift': The comedy of literary disorientation in Blue Raincoat Theatre Company's, At swim two birds / Rhona Trench -- The joyful mysteries of comedy / Bernard Farrell -- The Dublin dame: from Biddy Mulligan to Mrs Brown / Ian R. Walsh -- 'Still getting above our stations': slagging as national pastime and the cultural body in the comedy of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr / Sarah Jane Scaife -- 'The problem with laughter': the clown as double agent in Barabbas' City of Clowns / Eric Weitz -- 'Talk about laugh': why is the Irish personality renowned for being so funny but Irish comedy on television somewhat less so? / John Waters -- 'Synge and "Protestant comedy" / Christopher Collins -- The glass ceiling and the gag: fifth wave feminism and Ireland's national theatre, 2010-2014 / Meadhbh McHugh -- The savage eye sees far: 'Militant irony' and the Jacobean corrective in contemporary Irish satire / Susanne Colleary -- Playwrights, screenplays, criminality, Gangland and the tragicomic imperatives in I went down and Intermission / Eamonn Jordan -- Along the thin line: Dublin comedy in recent Fishamble plays / Jim Culleton -- Stand-up comedy in a multicultural setting: between raw nerve and a funny bone / Kunle Animashaun -- The inmates take the mic: Irish comedians on stand-up comedy / compiled, with additional material by Justin Murphy, original interviews conducted by Declan Rooney.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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