The Trouble with Trouble: Restaging Historic Acts of Violence

Mac Cathmhaoill, Dónall (2024). The Trouble with Trouble: Restaging Historic Acts of Violence. In: Gaviña-Costero, Maria; Pedro, Dina and Mac Cathmhaoill, Dónall eds. ‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home’: The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture. Volume II: Socio-Cultural Aspects. Reimagining Ireland, 134. Lausanne, CH: Peter Lang Group AG, pp. 185–202.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b21249

Abstract

In the period since the Good Friday agreement (1998), works that depict real atrocities and tragedies have proliferated. Hackett and Rolston, referencing a study by victims organisation Healing Through Remembering, note that storytelling has a particular prevalence in post-conflict northern Ireland and has been widely touted as a viable means of recovering truth and securing justice for victims (2009: 357). This chapter seeks to examine the value, and values, present in productions that depict or describe conflict-era violence, and critically examine the politics, ethics, and dramaturgies at play in applied theatre that uses real historical incidents as the basis for dramatic productions that claim to address legacy issues of the conflict. For the purpose of doing so, it will focus on the play 'Trouble', written by Shannon Yee and produced by Belfast company TheatreofplucK in 2015.

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An interrogation of the aesthetics and ethics of a production by Belfast theatre compnay TheatreofplucK of the play 'Trouble' by Shannon Yee in 2015.

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