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- Sean O’Casey in Context
- Sean O’Casey in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Sean O’Casey’s Life and Times: A Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part IKey Places and Events
- Part IISocial Contexts
- Part IIICollaborators and Critics
- Part IVPerformance Legacies
- Chapter 24The Abbey Theatre
- Chapter 25The Irish Stage
- Chapter 26The English Stage
- Chapter 27Onstage in the USA
- Chapter 28The French Stage
- Chapter 29The German Stage
- Chapter 30The Central European Stage
- Chapter 31The Biography in Performance
- Part VNon-Theatrical Writings
- Part VICritical Understandings
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 29 - The German Stage
from Part IV - Performance Legacies
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Book contents
- Sean O’Casey in Context
- Sean O’Casey in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Sean O’Casey’s Life and Times: A Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part IKey Places and Events
- Part IISocial Contexts
- Part IIICollaborators and Critics
- Part IVPerformance Legacies
- Chapter 24The Abbey Theatre
- Chapter 25The Irish Stage
- Chapter 26The English Stage
- Chapter 27Onstage in the USA
- Chapter 28The French Stage
- Chapter 29The German Stage
- Chapter 30The Central European Stage
- Chapter 31The Biography in Performance
- Part VNon-Theatrical Writings
- Part VICritical Understandings
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses Sean O’Casey’s drama performed in Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. The main focus is on plays addressing political turmoil and revolutionary upheaval. Some German-speaking audiences for these plays were confronted with similar crises at the time that the plays were produced in the German language. As a hotspot of the East–West conflict, O’Casey’s plays performed in Berlin are of particular interest, and this chapter concludes with an appendix that lists key Germanophone premieres.
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- Sean O'Casey in Context , pp. 318 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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