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SUMMARY:David Ireland - 21 November 2022
DESCRIPTION:The award-winning playwright\, David Ireland\, known for his wickedly dark humour and biting satire\, will be joining Dr Michelle Paull for a discussion on his work. The evening will also feature a live performance from the cast of Not Now\, Ireland’s play running in November at The Finborough Theatre.   \n\n“Cyprus Avenue was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre Dublin. I was aware I was being commissioned as an Irish writer – but I’ve always felt British. I’ve always identified as British. And yet\, I’m undeniably influenced by so much of the Irish canon – especially O’Casey\, Wilde\, Beckett and Joyce. In some ways\, I was trying to write a traditionally Irish play from an Ulster loyalist perspective. To try to encapsulate all the rage and frustration\, fear and defiance of the Planter experience in Ireland- but with the epic sweep of O’Casey and the existentialist absurdism of Beckett. I didn’t quite get to that level of genius but I did ok with my limited talent.” \n\n  Speakers and performers:  David Ireland \n\n\n\n David Ireland David Ireland is from Belfast and trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His first play\, WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY\, was produced at Oran Mor\, Glasgow in 2009. His other plays include EVERYTHING BETWEEN US (Tinderbox\, Belfast) which won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award\, THE END OF HOPE (Oran Mor)\, HALF A GLASS OF WATER (Field Day)\, YES SO I SAID YES (Ransom Productions\, Belfast)\, CAN’T FORGET ABOUT YOU (Lyric\, Belfast) and I PROMISE YOU SEX AND VIOLENCE (Northern Stage\, Newcastle). In 2015\, he adapted Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING for Dundee Rep and Graeae. He has also written extensively for television and radio.. His 2016 play CYPRUS AVENUE (Royal Court London/Abbey Theatre Dublin/Public Theatre NYC) won the Irish Times Award for Best New Play and the James Tait Black Award for Drama and in 2018 ULSTER AMERICAN (Traverse\, Edinburgh) won a Scotsman Fringe First\, the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award and the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland Award for Best New Play.  Dr Michelle Paull \n\n\n\n Dr Michelle Paull Dr Michelle Paull is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Michelle’s PhD at Goldsmiths’ College\, University of London focused on the theatre of Sean O’Casey and she is currently working on her monograph\, Sean O’Casey: Critical Controversies. Michelle’s research and teaching interests include contemporary theatre\, London theatre\, Irish plays\, Sean O’Casey\, adaptations on stage and screen and contemporary writing in English.    \n  \n \n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/david-ireland-21-november-2022/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Belfast,Border,emigration,theatre,tradition
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