Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy

The Comic 'i'
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-46590-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colleary, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; The Warm Up 1. The Trailblazers: Vaudeville, Music Hall and Hibernian Varieties 2. The Comic 'i' 3. Messages 4. Everybody Knows That the Dice is Loaded 5. Revenge of the Buckteeth Girl Final Remarks Appendix Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susanne Colleary is Assistant Lecturer/Practitioner in the Humanities Department at Sligo Institute of Technology (SIT) and as Adjunct Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her previous publications include chapters in The Theatre of Conor McPherson (ed. Jordan & Chambers, 2012), Performing Feminisms (ed. Fitzpatrick, 2012) and For the Sake of Sanity: doing things with humour in Irish performance (ed. Weitz, 2014). She has worked as an actor in both amateur and professional fields and has published articles on Irish theatre, stand-up comedy and televisual satire. She is currently working on practice-based research focused on contemporary and historicised understandings of Irish popular theatre and performance.