Staging an Epic Poem for the Twenty-First Century: Marina Carr's iGirl and the 2021 Abbey Theatre Production
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10497773" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10497773 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_-dE7nqnqb" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_-dE7nqnqb</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2025-2021" target="_blank" >10.1515/jcde-2025-2021</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Staging an Epic Poem for the Twenty-First Century: Marina Carr's iGirl and the 2021 Abbey Theatre Production
Original language description
This article discusses the 2021 Abbey Theatre production of Marina Carr's monologue play iGirl, which premiered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The play brings together fictitious and historical voices - mostly female - who speak through its only character, Girl (Olwen Fouéré). Adopting the epic genre, it offers a bleak vision of humanity's past and future. Catherine Fay's costume, Sinéad Wallace's lighting, Joanna Parker's set and video design (the latter with Daniel Denton) emphasise Carr's focus on marginalised voices but also add a layer of the digital. While the livestreaming of iGirl's only dialogical scene, along with the presence of a secluded desk on stage, evokes the recent lockdown, Fouéré's otherwise nonmediated rhapsodic performance in the physical space of the theatre serves as a counter experience. Both the pandemic context, with a heightened reliance on technology to facilitate communication, and Carr's gender politics are implied by the play's title. While a lower-case "i" followed by an upper-case letter evokes the digital and/or the Internet, the play's first-person narrative style is emphasised when iGirl is read as "I, Girl." Attributing several monologues to a contemporary "Girl," whose voice partly overlaps with that of Carr, this article identifies her as the titular iGirl.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal for Contemporary Drama in English
ISSN
2195-0156
e-ISSN
2195-0164
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
90-107
UT code for WoS article
001478363100015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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