Productions of the Irish Theatre Movement, 1899-1916 A Checklist

Subjects:

• The Arts » Theater

Reviews:

• ...will be of particular value to researchers in the field of theatrical and literary history.
  —Ireland of the Welcomes May-June 2002

• Endorsement From Gary A. Richardson
  Page Morton Hunter Professor of English
  Mercer University: For scholars of Irish nationalist theatre, Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel has provided a long-needed tool for further investigation. Collected in this single volume is the most complete compilation to date of the premiers and revivals of the Irish theatre in the wake of the 1916 Rising. By meticulously examining contemporary radical newspapers, Ritschel has been able not only to supply a convenient, detailed chronology of the Abbey theatre's production history but also to map more completely than ever before the theatrical landscape from which the Abbey emerged. By including Irish theatrical activity outside Dublin and by incorporating Irish-language as well as English-language productions, this volume provides information essential to the emergence of a more nuanced history of Irish theatre as a whole. All in all, a model of this type of scholarship and one that will guarantee this work's abiding usefulness.
• Endorsement From John P. Harrington
  Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union
  author of The Irish Play on the New York Stage
  editor of Modern Irish Drama: In Productions of the Irish Theatre Movement, Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel documents in checklist form a wealth of theatrical practices in Ireland from the turn of the 20th century through Easter 1916. This new record fundamentally alters our sense of who were the agents of cultural change, where they staged dramas, and how often particular works were revived. The result is a newly diversified sense of the Irish Literary Renaissance in a reference work that will be essential for all scholars of the place and the period.
• Endorsement From James Hurt
  Professor of English
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel's A Checklist provides a resource that students of the Irish theatre have long needed but have (shockingly) lacked: an accurate, comprehensive chronicle of theatre productions in Ireland during the Literary Renaissance. Ritschel's work alters our view of the Irish Theatre Movement by giving us the valleys as well as the peaks, the fertile theatrical culture of long-forgotten plays as well as the canonical ones of Synge, Gregory, and Yeats. A Checklist is a reference tool that will enable useful work of historicizing and recovery by students of this important chapter in the history of the theatre.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1899
• 1900
• 1901
• 1902
• 1903
• 1904
• 1905
• 1906
• 1907
• 1908
• 1909
• 1910
• 1911
• 1912
• 1913
• 1914
• 1915
• 1916
• Index