British and Irish Political Theatre Since 1950:
Celebrating the Legacies of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy
O’Donoghue Centre
for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Friday 24 November 2017, 09.30-17.00
John arden and Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway, 1972
09.30 –10.30 Symposum welcome and introduction (Patrick
Lonergan) Patrick Duggan 'Attempting Conversations with the State: 'Loose'
Performances of Radical Resistance'
Chair: Marianne Ni Chinneide
10.30 – Coffee.
11.00 - 11.40: Formal Launch of the John Arden and
Margaretta D’Arcy Archive at NUI Galway
11.45-12.30:
Sources for Research on John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy
Kieran Hoare (NUIG)–
The Arden/D’Arcy archive at NUI Galway
Harriet Reed: (Victoria and Albert Museum) “Arden, D’Arcy and the
Irish in the Royal Court Archive’.
Chair: Barry Houlihan
12.30-13.30 – Reception with sandwiches/lunch at this
time.
13.30- 14.45: Showcase of NUI Galway research on British
and Irish political theatre since 1950
• Miriam Haughton,
“Staging Trauma: Politicising Performance”
• Lionel
Pilkington, ‘The Challenges of Anti-Capitalist Theatre in 1980s Ireland’
• Patrick
Lonergan, The Troubles Untroubled: Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman
• Charlotte
McIvor, ““Archives, Activism, Absence: Suzanne Day’s “Toilers” and ‘Where Are
the Irish Women Playwrights’ (Again)”
Chair: Ian Walsh
14.45 – break
15.00 – 15.45
Vicky Angelaki, “Contemporary British Political Playwriting: The
Disappearing Binary”
Chair: Catherine Morris
Conclusion of symposium.
15.45 – coffee/tea
16.00 – 17.00 Margaretta D’Arcy public interview
All welcome and registration is free: http://conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=541
