Queer Notions
New Plays and Performances from Ireland
Edited by Fintan Walsh
Foreword by Frank McGuiness
Cloth: 978 1 85918 469 1
Price: $55.00  

Publisher: Cork University Press
October 2010 , 256 pp., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993, up to and including the present. The anthology includes plays, experimental performance documentation, and a visual essay that reveal the impassioned creativity that
illuminates and invigorates the margins of culture.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Flaming Archive—Fintan Walsh
The Queen & Peacock (2000)—Loughlin Deegan
Passage (2001)—Deirdre Kinahan
A Cure for Homosexuality (2005)—Neil Watkins
The Drowning Room (2006)—Verity-Alicia Mavenawitz
Danny and Chantelle (Still Here) (2006)—Phillip McMahon
The Ecstasy of Tomorrow (Visual Essay, 1987-2010)—Niall Sweeney
Victor and Gord, Ali and Michael (2009)—Úna McKevitt, with cast
A Woman in Progress (2009)—Panti


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Reviews & Endorsements:
"This is a very exciting collection which will make a vital contribution to literature on Irish theatre and drama studies. It will also greatly help in documenting the rich, challenging and vibrant nature of LGBTQ culture in Ireland. Perhaps most importantly, it should provoke and entertain a wide audience."
- Ivana Bacik, Senator and Reid Professor of Law , Trinity College, Dublin