Unsettling Irish Drama

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

This course examines Ireland’s performance as an independent nation and the staging of Irishness on the national stage. Irish theatre serves as a site for enacting dominant narratives of identity and tensions around class, race, and gender. Alternative modes of performance—including dance, drag, and fringe theatre—have emerged to challenge and expand these conventions. Theatre and performance in Northern Ireland has also been shaped by the region’s contested political and cultural history.