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urn:uuid:ee1ca965-4931-4e27-b070-222870280f45 03 01 01 urn:uuid:ee1ca965-4931-4e27-b070-222870280f45 15 9781805114321 06 10.11647/OBP.0432 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Active Speech Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy 1 B01 21 0000-0002-4660-2838 Úna Kealy 2 B01 21 0000-0001-5095-0344 Kate McCarthy First edition. 01 eng 00 360 03 93 1DDR 10 LIT013000 B2 Theatre 93 ATD B2 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 10 PER011030 93 DSG 10 PER003100 93 DNBF 10 SOC032000 10 BIO022000 01 06 03 00 'Active Speech' is a groundbreaking collection of scholarly essays and practitioner interviews focused on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. Acts of recovery in the 1980s and 1990s challenged Deevy’s exclusion from the literary canon, reclaiming her contributions as significant to Irish drama and theatre. The recent resurgence of scholarship and productions evidences that, as a deafened woman and Irish playwright, Deevy’s creative power continues to disrupt and tilt the canon of Irish drama, theatre, and performance.Essays within the collection explore how Deevy’s work interrogates early to mid-twentieth century Irish social norms and ideologies and provide a rich context for understanding her plays. The collection highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on Deevy and offers insights on her work through archival research, literary analysis, and practitioner perspectives from Deaf and hearing theatremakers.One of the collection's strengths lies in its collaborative and inclusive approach, showcasing diverse methodologies and rigorous scholarship. The chapters on archival research and practitioner perspectives offer compelling models and avenues for future studies. This volume is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and theatremakers alike. 04 00 Foreword Teresa Deevy: A Journey of Discovery Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Abbreviations Teresa Deevy: Life, Scholarship, Practice ACCESS AND ARCHIVES 1. ‘Why Would Anyone Be Interested in My Old Aunt Teresa?’: Illuminating Teresa Deevy’s Legacy 2. The Teresa Deevy Archive and the Development of Collections and Curation in Maynooth University Library 3. TSI: Teresa Deevy, or What Do We Know about [The] Reapers? 4. Mysteries of the Teresa Deevy Archive: Reconsidering the plays of D.V. Goode DEEVY’S IRELAND: A COUNTRY IN CONTEXT 5. ‘Very Seldom Are Messages Properly Given’: Teresa Deevy’s Dark Matter 6. ‘I Must Just Make an Opening Elsewhere’: Teresa Deevy’s Involvement with Studio Theatre Practice, 1934–1958 7. ‘It Is Myself I Seen in Her’: Points of Departure in Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935) DRAMATURGY, GENRE, AND THEORY 8. Finding Money in the Walls: Uncovering the Feminist Power of Teresa Deevy’s Dramaturgy through an Embodied, Practice-Based Approach 9. Becoming a Domesticated Irish Woman: Teresa Deevy’s Critique of Idealised Representations of Womanhood in Katie Roche 10. The Liminal Space of Widowhood in Teresa Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan (1937) PRODUCTIONS AND PRACTITIONERS 11. Teresa Deevy’s Katie Roche: Art, Culture, and Performance 12. Teresa Deevy and Contemporary Performance Practice: Edited Transcript of Teresa Deevy Practitioner Panel Discussion 13. ‘You Can Feel the Change in the Air’: Reflecting on Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady, a Shapeshifting of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20250407 2025 06 15 9781805114307 06 15 9781805114314 06 15 9781805114321 06 15 9781805114345 06 15 9781805114338 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0432.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0432 99 01