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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Conor McPherson"”.
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Eye for the Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, and the Nietszchean Chorus in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Shining City
… <em>The Weir</em> and <em>Shining City</em> by Conor McPherson as embodying elements of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, Artaud, and Brecht, the …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
… Irish playwrights: Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, and Elaine Murphy. Specifically, it investigates the inclusion, by these playwrights, of “elderly” characters in their plays written between 1995 and 2010—a period of economic and cultural change known as the …
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Time the avenger: two plays and a critical thesis. How does a dramatist’s use of stage time affect the audience’s understanding of the story being told? A critical examination of temporal framing in the work of four playwrights
… Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (485 BCE), The Weir by Conor McPherson (1997), Betrayal by Harold Pinter (1978), and Le Père (The Father) by Florian Zeller (2012, English translation, Christopher Hampton: 2014), each of which employ manifestly disparate temporal modalities. In Le Père and Betrayal, the …
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"Old Cod": The Power of Storytelling in Conor McPherson's <em>The Weir</em>
… the representation of Irish storytelling in Conor McPherson’s 1997 play <em>The Weir</em>. Drawing on postcolonial theory as well as the historical context of Ireland during the play’s release, I argue that <em>The Weir</em> is uniquely positioned at the intersection of traditional and modern …