The Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern I... - 9783031752285

The Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern IrelandAuthor(s): Alexander Coupe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031752285, 978-3031752285\nSynopsis\nThis book examines theatre and performance produced since the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in the context of growing discontent with the failure of the peace in Northern Ireland to deliver genuinely transformative forms of social justice. The economic expansion that attended the peace accord propelled the growth of the regions theatre and performance sector and assisted in increasing the representation of women and LGBTQ+ people across the arts. Despite this, much of the performance work produced since 1998 has illuminated the darker social consequences of Northern Irelands embrace of a specifically neoliberal vision of a post-conflict society. Existing scholarship has already highlighted the role of theatre and performance in d.