{"id":1309,"date":"2018-03-30T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2018-03-27T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:53:31","slug":"assistant-professor-discusses-feminism-and-disability-on-the-irish-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/assistant-professor-discusses-feminism-and-disability-on-the-irish-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor Discusses Feminism and Disability on the Irish Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Townsend recently gave a talk titled, &#8220;The Deafening Defiance of Miss Deevy: Feminism and Disability on the Irish Stage&#8221; about one of the most promising and prolific playwrights of\u00a0her generation, Teresa Deevy. From 1930 to 1936, six of her plays were produced at the\u00a0illustrious Irish National Theatre on Abbey Street in Dublin. One was\u00a0awarded the institution\u2019s best play award, and another toured with the\u00a0company in America. Through an exploration of archives at Maynooth University, Townsend sought to figure out why Deevy fell into literary obscurity by\u00a0the end of the same decade as the height of her success. Combing through\u00a0correspondence, notebooks, and manuscripts, she situates the\u00a0playwright\u2019s brief career within the shifting artistic and political landscape\u00a0of 1930s Ireland. Deevy\u2019s unapologetic feminism onstage, her criticism of\u00a0state censorship offstage, and her status as a deaf unmarried woman all\u00a0contributed to her marginalization. Townsend also addressed the recent resurrection of Deevy\u2019s work by a group of women playwrights, actors, directors, and theatre professionals\u00a0who have resumed the call for a more equitable Irish stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Townsend recently gave a talk titled, &#8220;The Deafening Defiance of Miss Deevy: Feminism and Disability on the Irish Stage&#8221; about one of the most promising and prolific playwrights of\u00a0her generation, Teresa Deevy. From 1930 to 1936, six of her plays were produced at the\u00a0illustrious Irish National Theatre on Abbey Street in Dublin. One was\u00a0awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}