Cultural Convergence

The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960

Ondřej Pilný, Ruud van den Beuken, Ian R. Walsh, Ruud van den Beuken, Ian R. Walsh, Ondřej Pilný

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9783030575618
• eBook ISBN:
  9783030575625
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism

Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politicsof the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts ofavant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development ofIrish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider theoutput of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence – the dynamics of exchange, interaction, and acculturation that reveal the workings of transnationalinfrastructures.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Cultural Convergence at Dublin’s Gate Theatre
• 2. The Internationalist Dramaturgy of Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir
• 3. Gearóid Ó Lochlainn: The Gate Theatre’s Other Irish-Speaking Founder
• 4. The Transnational Roots of Key Figures from the Early Years of the Gate Theatre, Dublin
• 5. The Other Gates: Anglo-American Influences on and from Dublin
• 6. The Brothers Čapek at the Gate: R.U.R. and The Insect Play
• 7. Kismet: Hollywood, Orientalism and the Design Language of Padraic Colum’s Mogu of the Desert
• 8. Prussian Discipline and Lesbian Vulnerability: Christa Winsloe’s Children in Uniform at the Gate
• 9. ‘We Belong to the World’: Christine Longford’s War Plays During Irish Neutrality
• Back Matter