🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

🇬🇧 [The course is taught and examined in English] 🇬🇧

A brief introduction to the history of Ireland, its culture and theatre, is followed by an approach to important Irish playwrights and their selected, representative plays. Each play is approached in the socio-political context of its time, both as a dramaturgy and as a performative event, and an attempt is made to assess its place in contemporary theatrical events in Ireland, but also internationally. In addition to familiarizing students with English-speaking Irish theater, the aim of the course is also to improve their language skills in English. Their active participation is desirable through interaction and oral presentations, as well as written commentary on multimedia material that is part of the course.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• recognize some basic features of contemporary Irish works.

• distinguish the relationship between the theme of the works and their time

• compose an overall critical presentation of the particulars. characteristics of the work of a writer or theatrical group.

• combine criticism of the artistic interpretation of some theatrical roles with their own interpretive gaze.

• organize the production and presentation of selected scenes of a play

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction and summary of the course
2. On the history of Ireland
3. The Irish Literary Renaissance. The Abby Theater, G. B. Yeats and J. M. Syng
4. J. Joyce, the 'Exiles' and Modernity.
5. S. O'Casey's 'Dublin Trilogy' and the struggle for independence.
6. Michael McLeamore: the Gate Theatre and Oscar Wilde's legacy
7. 'Homer' by B. The road to the "riots" was also taken.
8. Brian Freell and life in the North.
9. T. Murphy's 'Concerto Gilli'
10. Frank McGuinness and the absurdity of war
11. The female voices of M. Carr
12. 'The Glow of an Insignificant Night' by C. McPherson
13. Contemporary Irish theatre in today's world.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Ireland? Introductory workshop

2. Playing the myth.

3. Workshop in Yates.

4. Workshop at Syng.

5. Theater Workshop

6. Theater Workshop

7. Theater Workshop

8. Theater Workshop

9. Theater Workshop

10. Theater Workshop

11. Presentations by the students

12. Presentations by the students

13. Presentations by the students

Language of assessment: English 🇬🇧

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Participation in the course: 10%

• Laboratory work: 30%

• Written Assignment: 30%

• Oral presentation: 30%

• Face-to-face
• Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
• Support of the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, extra bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA143/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance  

Extra Bibliography

• Behan, Brendan (1959). The Hostage, Grove Press. Available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL20279807M/The_hostage
• Carr, Marina (1999). Plays One. Faber. Available at:https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2296106W/Plays_one?edition=ia%3Aplaysone0000carr

• Friel, Brian (1990). Dancing at Lughnasa. Faber. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1609741M/Dancing_at_Lughnasa

• Joyce, James (1979). Exiles. Grafton Books.Available at: https://manybooks.net/titles/joycejamother08exiles.html?ga_submit=lrf-google:rfRVOnlf4IqetRx

• Mac Liammóir, Micheál (1963). The Importance of being Oscar. Oxford University Press. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4476773M/The_importance_of_being_Oscar

• McGuinness, Frank (1986). Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme.  Faber.

• McPherson, Connor (2013), The night Alive, Nick Hern Books. The Night Alive | PDF | Leisure | Nature (scribd.com) 

• Murphy, Tom (1984). The Gigli Concert. Gallery Press. Available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2933653M/The_Gigli_concert

• O’ Casey, Sean (2001). The Plough and the Stars. Faber.

• Synge, John Millington, (1981). ‘Riders to the Sea’ in The Complete Plays. Methuen. Available at: https://ia800905.us.archive.org/7/items/riderstosea00syngiala/riderstosea00syngiala_bw.pdf

  Secondary sources

• Brown, Terence (1985). Ireland. A Social and Cultural history 1922-1985. Fontana Press
• Coogan, Tim Pat (ed). Ireland and the Arts. A special issue of  The Literary Review. Namara Press
• Dean, Seamus (1985). Celtic revivals. Faber
• Fermor, Una-Ellis (1967). The Irish Dramatic Movement. Methuen
• Fitz-Simon, Christopher (1983). The Irish Theatre. Thames and Hudson
• Foster, Roy (ed.) (1991). The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press.
• Grene, Nicholas (1985). Synge: A Critical study of the Plays. Macmillan.
• Jordan, Eamonn and Weitz, Eric (eds.) (2018). The Palgrave Handbookof Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan UK / HEAL- Link Springbooks (e-book)
• Kibert, Declan (1995). Inventing Ireland. The Literature of the Modern Nation. Macmillan.
• Maxwell, D.E.S. (1984). A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980. Cambridge University Press.
• Murray, Christopher (1997). Twentieth Century Irish Drama. Mirror up to Nation. Manchester University Press
• O’ hAoda, Micheal (1974). Theatre in Ireland. Oxford.
• O’ Connor, Ulick (1970). Brendan Behan. Abacus.
• O’ Toole, Fintan (1994). Tom Murphy: The Politics of Magic. New Island Books
• Roche, Anthony (1994). Contemporary Irish Drama from Beckrtt to McGuinness. Gill & Macmillan
• Watson, G. J. (1979). Irish Identity and the Literary revival. Synge, Yeats, Joyce, O’ Casey. Groom Helm.
• Worth, Katharine (1978). The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett. Athlone.
• Platskou, S. (2000.) The Irish Theatre in Greece. Fifty years of stage presence (1943-1992). Doctoral dissertation. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Available at: https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/23095