Glucksman Ireland House presents
Professor Christopher Morash discusses the plays of Lennox Robinson
Thursday, September 17th at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
There is a tendency in Irish cultural history to see the decades after 1926 as a period in which Ireland pulled down the shutters, and went into hibernation. However, recent work on the middle decades of the twentieth century suggests that Irish culture in the 1930s and 1940s was more open than the prevailing view suggests, and consequently that it is possible to trace lines of continuity from the globalized Ireland of today back to the earlier period.
In this regard, Lennox Robinson’s Drama at Inish emerges as a key play of the period, staging an Irish encounter with modernist European theatre in ways that suggest an audience who saw themselves placed within a wider world republic of letters.
Presented by Professor Christopher Morash, of NUI Maynooth, in association with the Mint Theater’s production of Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living? as part of the 1st Irish theater festival 2009.