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List of illustrations xvi
Acknowledgements xix
Preface/Réamhrá Fiach Mac Conghail xxiii
Introduction: 'Strays from the ether' Bernadette Sweeney Marie Kelly 1
Chapter 1 'Someone opened a door…And now the traffic's racin'…'
A Vibrant Presence: A Biography of Tom Mac Intyre's Work Bernadette Sweeney 23
Introduction to The Harper's Turn Seamus Heaney 43
In Conversation with Tom Mac Intyre Vincent Woods 44
Tom Mac Intyre: Border Country Bandit Tom Hickey 55
Chapter 2 'a 'conspirator's gleam'
The Long Surrender: Finding a Theatrical Voice Through the Plays of the 1970s Ben Francombe 65
Theatre Review: 'Salome gets Modern Treatment'(The Irish Independent, 10 May 1977) Desmond Rushe 81
Theatre Review: Doobally/Black Way (The Irish Times, 9 October 1979) David Nowlan 81
Theatre Review: 'A Nimble Mime at the Peacock'(The Evening Press, August 1976) Michael Sheridan 82
Chapter 3 'Down the ruckety pass'
A Director's Note Patrick Mason 85
On Design Environmental Design and the Plays of Tom Mac Intyre Bronwen Casson 87
Environmental Design in the Dublin Theatre John Barrett 89
Theatre Review: 'A Great Poem Without Words'(The Irish Press, 11 May 1983) Gerard Stembridge 93
Theatre Review: 'Images of Fragmented Ireland'(The Sunday Independent, 20 July 1986) Colm Tóibín 94
Theatre Review: The Great Hunger (The Guardian, 13 August 1986) Michael Billington 95
Theatre Review: 'People Hungering After Humanity' (The Guardian, 27 November 1986) Nicholas de Jongh 96
In the Beginning Was…the Image … (Theatre Ireland, 1984) Kathryn Holmquist 98
Programme Note: 'The Hurt Mind'(Peacock Theatre, 1986) Dermot Healy 105
Programme Note: 'The Ghost, the Gate and the Go Beyant' (Peacock Theatre, 1986) Michael Harding 109
Oedipal Desire in Mac Intyre's The Great Hunger: A Palaeo Postmodern Perspective Catriona Ryan 111
'What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger?' Paul Durcan 125
Chapter 4 'Warming to the fray'
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady (Theatre Ireland, Autumn 1984) Joseph Mc Minn 133
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady (The Irish Press, 12 September 1984) Peter Thompson 135
In Conversation with Bríd Ní Neachtain Marie Kelly 136
The Lunatics in the Basement: Madness in Mac Intyre Dermod Moore 139
New Dimensions: Spaces for Play in the Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre Marie Kelly 145
Theatre Review: Rise Up Lovely Sweeney (The Sunday Tribune, 15 September 1985) Fintan O'Toole 165
Programme Note: Dance for your Daddy 'Must you Play the Piano in your Nightgown?' (Peacock Theatre, 1987) Dermot Healy 167
Theatre Review: Dance for your Daddy (The Irish Times, 3 March 1987) David Nowlan 170
Scenes from Snow White Tom Mac Intyre 171
Programme Note: 'Chomh geal le Sneachta' (Peacock Theatre, 1988) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 176
Theatre Review: Snow White (Theatre Ireland, Summer 1988) David Calvert 178
Theatre Review: Snow White (The Irish Times, 28 June 1988) David Nowlan 180
Performing Women in Tom Mac Intyre's Drama SarahJane Scaife 181
Tom Mac Intyre and Theatre of the Image Daniel Shea 198
Chapter 5 'a gradle o' stories
Programme Note: Kitty O'Shea (Peacock Theatre, 1990) Medbh McGuckian 215
Theatre Review: Kitty O'Shea (Theatre Ireland, October 1990) Victoria White 218
Theatre Review: Fine Day for a Hunt (The Galway Advertiser, 23 July 1992) Jeff O'Connell 220
Theatre Review: Chickadee (The Sunday Tribune, 23 May 1993) Jocelyn Clarke 221
Programme Note: 'The Night Before the Morning After' (Peacock Theatre, 1994) Ciaran Carson 223
'Between two languages…' Olwen Fouéré 224
Images of Sheep's Milk on the Boil Amelia Stein 226
Second Opinion: Sheep's Milk on the Boil (The Irish Times, 2 March 1994) Fintan O'Toole 237
Good Evening, Mr Collins Christina Hunt Mahony 239
Theatre Review: Good Evening, Mr Collins (The Irish Times, 12 October 1995) David Nowlan 244
Programme Note: 'The Bandit Pen' (Peacock Theatre, October 1995) Marina Carr 245
Stories Happen to Storytellers Karen Ardiff 247
A Conversation with Carolyn Swift, Tom Mac Intyre, and John Scott on You Must Tell the Bees (UCD Forum, 1996) Deirdre Mulrooney 256
'The Magic of Dissonance'(The Irish Times, 24 September 1996) Helen Meany 263
Theatre Review: The Chirpaun (The Irish Times, 4 December 1997) Victoria White 265
Theatre Review: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (The Irish Times, 20 April 1998) Diarmuid Johnson 266
Programme Note: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (Peacock Theatre, 1998) Alan Titley 267
Choreographing Cúirt an Mheán Oíche Finola Cronin 270
Chapter 6 'between the worlds'
Theatre Review: The Gallant John-Joe (The Irish Times, 29 November 2001) Fintan O'Toole 279
Ballet in the Bog (The Guardian, 23 February 2005) John Mahoney 280
Mapping the World of Bridgie Cleary Joe Vanek 285
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary (The Irish Times, 29 May 2005) Fintan O'Toole 298
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary (Irish Theatre Magazine, 19 May 2005) Patrick Lonergan 299
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary (The Guardian, 29 April 2005) Karen Fricker 301
Anarchic and Strange: Only an Apple Bernadette Sweeney Marie Kelly Selina Cartmell 302
Theatre Review: Only an Apple (Irish Theatre Magazine, 6 May 2009) Patrick Lonergan 314
Letters to the Editor Eilish MacCurtain Pearse Augustine Martin Sebastian Barry 316
The Hurt Mind (1985) Tom Mac Intyre 321
Notes on the Contributors 323
Index 327
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