Samuel Beckett, the Gate Theatre Dublin, and the contemporary Irish independent theater sector: fragments of performance history

From 1991, when the Dublin Gate Theatre launched their Samuel Beckett Festival featuring nineteen of Beckett’s stage plays, to more recent years, the Gate dominated Irish productions of Beckett’s theater. The Gate Beckett Festival was remounted in 1996 at the Lincoln Center, New York, and at the Barbican Centre, London, in 1999, and individual or grouped productions have toured regularly since then in Ireland and internationally. However, since the Irish premiere of Waiting of Godot at the Pike Theatre in 1955, in addition to several Beckett plays mounted by the National Theatre, many independent Irish theater companies, such as Focus Theatre, Druid Theatre, and more recently Pan Pan Theatre, Blue Raincoat Theatre, The Corn Exchange, and Company SJ (under director Sarah Jane Scaife), have produced Beckett’s drama. While acknowledging earlier Irish productions, this essay will consider the role of the Dublin Gate Beckett Festival and the Beckett Centenary celebrations in Dublin in 2006 in greatly enhancing the marketability of Beckett’s work, and will discuss the proliferation of productions of Beckett’s stage plays (as opposed to stage adaptations of the prose work, which is a topic for another essay) in the independent theater sector in the Republic of Ireland since 2006. In addition to giving an overview of these recent productions, the essay will consider some issues at stake in creating or constructing performance histories

Reproductive cooperation between queens and their mated workers: the complex life history of an ant with a valuable nest.

The life history of Harpegnathos saltator is exceptional among ants because both queens and workers reproduce sexually. Recently mated queens start new colonies alone, but later some of the offspring workers also become inseminated and take over the egg-laying role. This alternation seems associated with the existence of very complex underground nests, which are designed to survive floods. Longevity of ponerine queens is low (a consequence of limited caste dimorphism in this "primitive" subfamily), and upon the death of an H. saltator foundress, the nest represents a substantial investment. The queen's progeny should thus be strongly selected to retain the valuable nests. Unlike the flying queens, the workers copulate with males from their own colonies, and, thus, their offspring are expected to be highly related to the foundress. Colony fission appears not to occur because a daughter fragment would lack an adequate nest for protection. Thus, the annual production of queens in colonies with reproductive workers remains essential for the establishment of new colonies. This contrasts with various other ponerine species in which the queens no longer exist.

A world history for the workers; a story of man's doings from the dawn of time, from the standpoint of the disinherited,

Brittle paper.

The theatre of the Greeks, or, The history, literature, and criticism of the Grecian drama; with an original treatise on the principal tragic and comic metres.

"An introduction to the principal Greek tragic and comic metres in scansion, structure, and ictus; by James Tate": p. [455]-529.

The theatre of the Greeks : a treatise on the history and exhibition of the Greek drama, with a supplementary treatise on the language, metres, and prosody of the Greek dramatists /

Includes index.

The theatre of the Greeks, a treatise on the history and exhibition of the Greek drama,

Mode of access: Internet.

The theatre of the Greeks, a series of papers relating to the history and criticism of the Greek drama.

The first 3 editions of this work appeared under the name of the original author, P.W. Buckham. cf. British Mus. General cat. of printed books.

The History of the life and reign of the valiant Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward the first of England, son to King Henry the third; and his Princess Eleonora. On which history is founded a play written by Mr. Thomson, call'd Edward and Eleonora; now in rehearsal at the Theatre in Covent-Garden. Extracted from the best historians. With a geographical description of that Prince's expedition to the Holy Land.

Mode of access: Internet.

A brief history of the United Mine Workers of America.

Mode of access: Internet.

A lecture on the study of ancient coins, in connection with history : as delivered Feb. 6, 1829, in the theatre of the Royal institution of Great Britain--

Engravings of a medal of Mr. Pingo's by T. Trotter mounted opposite p. [1]

A brief history of the first decade of the National League of Women Workers, 1898 to 1908.

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The eternal drama; a comprehensive treatise on the syngenetic history of humanity, dramatics, and theatre.

Bibliography: p. 293-295.