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1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Photographs; Chapter 1: An Introduction in Search of an Audience; Chapter 2: Loving the Art in Yourself: a short history of the Focus Theatre; Chapter 3: The Journey to Stanislavski and Beyond; Chapter 4: Lineage: Acting and the Theatre; Chapter 5: An Interview with Margaret Toomey; Chapter 6: Focus at Fifty; Chapter 7: The Tern: a Memoir; Chapter 8: The Hen-Night Epiphany; Chapter 9: A (partial) Return to the Irish Fold; Chapter 10: Writing as Politics, Politics as Writing: an interview with Brian McAvera. |
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Chapter 11: Focus is the Voice of its PeopleAuditions:; Focus vs. Dublin Theatre establishment; Stanislavski Training; Directing; Business; Productions; Memories of Deirdre; Transition from Deirdre to Joe; The Joe Devlin Years; Chapter 12: Focus Theatre and Deirdre O'Connell; Chapter 13: Deirdre on Film: Reflections In A Golden Eye; Chapter 14: The Last Night Speech at the Focus; Chapter 15: Afterword; Appendices; Appendix 1: Plays Produced at the Focus Theatre 1967-2013; Appendix 2: A Short History of the Focus 1967-73; Appendix 3: Two Excerpts on The Focus. |
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Appendix 4: Press Responses in the early Focus yearsAppendix 5: Stanislavski Studio Exercises at the Focus, Questions to Ask Yourself as an Actor; Appendix 6: Preparing the Body to Work with the Elements: Joe Devlin; Appendix 7: The President Mary Robinson talks to Paddy Woodward; Short Biographies; Index; Footnotes. |
| Summary |
A celebratory retrospective of the ground-breaking 'Focus Theatre' in Dublin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Focus Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) -- History.
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Focus Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) |
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History. |
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Theater -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History.
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Theater. |
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Ireland -- Dublin. |
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Method acting.
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Method acting. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Burch, Steven Dedalus.
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Moynihan, Mary.
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Devlin, Joe.
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Moynihan, Elizabeth.
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Burke-Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth.
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Murphy, Jimmy.
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Quinn, Cathal.
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Higgins, Sabina Coyne.
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O'Brien, Kevin.
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O'Leary, Ronan.
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Cusack, Geraldine.
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McDonnell, Tim.
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May, Ena.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McAvera, Brian. Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty. Dublin : Carysfort Press Limited, ©2013 9781909325432 |
| ISBN |
9781909325555 |
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1909325554 |
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