Staging an Epic Poem for the Twenty-First Century: Marina Carr's iGirl and the 2021 Abbey Theatre Production
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v 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>
Výsledek na webu
<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>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Staging an Epic Poem for the Twenty-First Century: Marina Carr's iGirl and the 2021 Abbey Theatre Production
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
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.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Staging an Epic Poem for the Twenty-First Century: Marina Carr's iGirl and the 2021 Abbey Theatre Production
Popis výsledku anglicky
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.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60205 - Literary theory
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2025
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Journal for Contemporary Drama in English
ISSN
2195-0156
e-ISSN
2195-0164
Svazek periodika
13
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
1
Stát vydavatele periodika
DE - Spolková republika Německo
Počet stran výsledku
18
Strana od-do
90-107
Kód UT WoS článku
001478363100015
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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