Echoes Down the Corridor

CONTENTS: Christopher Murray: «Echoes Down the Corridor»: The Abbey Theatre 1904-2004 – Mary C. King: A Synge for Our Times? Yeats’s enquiring man revisited – Joan FitzPatrick Dean: Staging the Aesthetic: The Vagrant Artists of Padraic Colum and Seumas O’Kelly – Chiaki Kojima: Shoyo Matsui, A Japanese Lennox Robinson: The Irish National Theatre and Japanese New Drama – Irina Ruppo: Wessex to Geesala: Hardy and Synge – Paul O’Brien: Sean O’Casey and The Abbey Theatre: A Conflicted Relationship – Helen Lojek: : Historical Stages – Christa Velten-Mrowka: «Am I a con man?»: Brian Friel’s idea of the self-reflective artist, viewed in the light of Adorno’s aesthetic theory – Alexandra Poulain: «A Voice and little else»: talking, writing and singing in – Mária Kurdi: Spatializing the Renewal of Female Subjectivity in Marie Jones’s – Donal E. Morse: The Present through the Prism of the Past: Frank McGuinness’s – Mika Funahashi: «Grow a Mermaid»: A Subtext for Marina Carr's Dramatic Works – Jason King: Beyond Ryanga: The Image of Africa in Contemporary Irish Theatre – Lisa Fitzpatrick: Nation and Myth in the Age of the Celtic Tiger: Muide Éire?