Launching Prompts for the Mover and Active Speech
About this Event
SETU, in conjunction with Waterford Libraries Service, are excited to launch two publications by SETU staff, Prompts for the Mover by Deirdre Grant and Active Speech: Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy, a collection of scholarly essays co-edited by Úna Kealy and Kate McCarthy.
Prompts for the Mover, a free interactive resource, is inspired by Deirdre Grant's return to the professional dance community after a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Prompts for the Mover will be of interest to dance artists, theatre practitioners and other creatives who may feel ‘stuck’ in their practice or for artists and creatives who wish to re-ignite, restart and/or recover their practice. Prompts for the Mover, was developed in conjunction with fine art photographer, Pádraig Grant and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Waterford City and County Council & Garter Lane Arts Centre. A link to Prompts for the Mover will be shared on the evening of the event and will continue to exist for anyone who wishes to interact with the resource thereafter.
Active Speech is a groundbreaking collection of scholarly essays and practitioner interviews focused on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. Acts of recovery in the 1980s and 1990s challenged Deevy’s exclusion from the literary canon, reclaiming her contributions as significant to Irish drama and theatre. Active Speech builds on this work presenting and considering contemporary scholarship and practice of Deevy's work. As a deafened woman and Irish playwright, Deevy’s creative power continues to disrupt and tilt the canon of Irish drama, theatre, and performance. Active Speech is available in hard copy and is also available free to download here.
Active Speech covers personal anecdotes, the archives, lost plays, different forms of performances, Deevy’s relationships, possible pseudonyms, and more. I would recommend this book for Irish Studies, theatre, and general readers.
Prof. Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Seton Hall University
Active Speech is a much-needed and long overdue contribution to the field of Irish theatre studies, and theatre studies more broadly. One of its greatest strengths is the nuanced conversations that arise from multiple contributors discussing the same plays, providing a breadth and depth of analysis that is so often denied women writers. Deevy’s robust plays thrive under this rigorous scrutiny, and the layers that unfold around both her major and minor works provide rich avenues of exploration for future scholarship and artistic practice.
Dr Justine Nakase, Portland State University and University of Galway
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