Professor Brian Singleton
Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama & Theatre, Drama
Biography
Professor Brian Singleton holds the Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin, and is Academic Director of The Lir - National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin. He is a former President of the International Federation for Theatre Research and former editor of Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press). He was co-editor (with Janelle Reinelt)and joint winner of the ATHE Excellence in Editing Prize for the 40-book series "Studies in International Performance" published by Palgrave/Macmillan. He serves on the Editorial Boards of New Theatre Quarterly and Contemporary Theatre Review and currently co-edits (with Elaine Aston the Palgrave book series 'Contemporary Performance InterActions'.
His research interests include orientalism and interculturalism in performance, as well as contemporary Irish and European theatre. His most recent monographs are entitled "Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre" (published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, reprinted with a new Preface in 2015) and "ANU Productions: The Monto Cycle" (Palgrave Macmillan 2016)
As well as completing a new essay on thisispopbaby's RIOT, and a book chapter on Modernism and Intercultural Theatre, he is also writing a new monograph provisionally titled ' Performance and Neoliberal Ireland'.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Interculturalism and Migration in Performance: From Distant Otherness to the Precarity of Proximity in, editor(s)Yana Meerzon & S. E. Wilmer , The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp91 - 101, [Brian Singleton]
Riotous Assembly: Performing Gender and Social Justice in thisispopbaby's RIOT in, editor(s)J. Paul Halferty & Cathy Leeney , Analysing Gender in Performance, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp241 - 257, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Finding the Intracultural, or How Kavalam Narayana Panikkar Found Me, Sangeet Natak, LV, (1-4), 2021, p238 - 250
Brian Singleton, Holding the Irish Queer Archive: An Interview with Louise Lowe and Lynnette Moran on ANU Productions' Faultline, Contemporary Theatre Review, 31, (1-2), 2021, p204 - 211
Brian Singleton, ANU Productions and the Performance of Otherness, Orbis Litterarum, 76, (6), 2021, p301 - 311
Brian Singleton, Standing by Small Acts of Citizenship: Contemporary Irish Theatre at the Faultlines of Social Change, International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference, National University of Ireland Galway, 12-16 July, 2021, NUIG/IFTR
Ariane Mnouchkine: Activism, Formalism, Cosmopolitanism in, editor(s)Maria M. Delgado & Dan Rebellato , Contemporary European Theatre Directors, 2nd revised edition, Abingdon & New York, Routledge, 2020, pp39 - 60, [Brian Singleton]
Lily Brayton: A Theatre Maker in Every Sense in, editor(s)Maggie B. Gale & Kate Dorney , Stage Women 1900-50: Female Theatre Workers and Professional Practice, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, pp191 - 215, [Brian Singleton]
Censorship and Sensitivities: Performing Tolerance in Postsecular Britain in, editor(s)Charlotte McIvor & Jason King , Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp213 - 233, [Brian Singleton]
Antoine, the Avant-Garde and the Modern Audience in, editor(s)Peta Tait , The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1 Antoine, Stanislavski, Saint-Denis, London, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018, pp19 - 40, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Actor Training: Emotions in the Moment, Care Under Pressure 2: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Simulation, Queens University Belfast, 6-7 April , 2018, Departments of Drama, Medicine, Social Work
Brian Singleton, From Rising to Riot: Irish Theatre's Retrofuture, Critical Stages: Scènes Critiques, (16), 2017
Brian Singleton, Feeling Eurovision: Salvador Sobral and the Sociality of Emotion, Royal Musical Society Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, 7-9 September , 2017, University of Liverpool, Music Department
Irish Theatre Devised in, editor(s)Nicholas Grene & Chris Morash , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp559 - 574, [Brian Singleton]
Beckett and the Non-Place in Irish Performance in, editor(s)Trish McTighe, David Tucker , Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland, London, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016, pp169 - 184, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, ANU Productions: The Monto Cycle, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, i - 109pp
Brian Singleton, The Political Trajectories of Contemporary Irish Performance, Theatre Journal, 68, (3), 2016, p473 - 481
Martin McDonagh in, editor(s)John F. Deeney and Maggie B. Gale , Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists, London & New York, Routledge, 2015, pp150 - 155, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Peer Review, Contemporary Theatre Review, 25, (1), 2015, p26 - 29
Brian Friel in, editor(s)John F. Deeney & Maggie B. Gale , Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists, London & New York, Routledge, 2015, pp91 - 96, [Brian Singleton]
Frank McGuinness in, editor(s)John F. Deeney and Maggie B. Gale , Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists, London & New York, Routledge, 2015, pp161 - 166, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre, London & New York, Palgrave , 2015, 1-227pp
Brian Singleton, Politicizing Performance: ANU Productions and Site-Specific Theater, BREAC: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, 2014
Performing Orientalist, Intercultural, and Globalized Modernities: The case of Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir by the Théatre du Soleil in, editor(s)Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain , The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism, New York & London, Routledge, 2014, pp77 - 94, [Brian Singleton]
B Singleton, Mise en Scène, Contemporary Theatre Review, 23, (1), 2013, p47 - 49
From Dana to Dustin: The Reputation of Old/New Ireland and the Eurovision Song Contest in, editor(s)Karen Fricker & Milija Gluhovic , Performing the 'New' Europe: Identities, Feelings and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, Basingstoke & New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp142 - 162, [Brian Singleton]
ANU Productions and Site-Specific Performance: The Politics of Space and Place in, editor(s)Fintan Walsh , 'That Was Us': Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance, London, Oberon Books, 2013, pp21 - 36, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 256pp
Asian Theatres, Mnouchkine, and Shakespeare: The Search for a Theatrical Form in, editor(s)Poonam Trivedi & Minami Ryuta , Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia, London & New York, Routledge, 2010, pp41 - 53, [Brian Singleton]
Narratives of Nostalgia: Oriental Evasions about the London Stage in, editor(s)Charlotte M. Canning & Thomas Postlewait , Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography, Iowa City, Iowa University Press, 2010, pp351 - 377, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Christopher Balme, Freddie Rokem, TRI's Cambridge Years: A Retrospective, Theatre Research International, 35, (3), 2010, p222 - 231
Ariane Mnouchkine: Activism, Formalism, Cosmopolitanism in, editor(s)Maria M. Delgado & Dan Rebellato , Contemporary European Theatre Directors, London & New York, Routledge, 2010, pp29 - 48, [Brian Singleton]
Queer Eye on the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities and the Performance of Nation in, editor(s)Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy , The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish Theatre, Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, Colin Smythe, 2009, pp99 - 114, [Brian Singleton]
Intercultural Shakespeare from Intracultural Sources: Two Korean Performances in, editor(s)Lee, Hyon-u , Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and Beyond, Seoul, Dongin Publishing, 2009, pp179 - 198, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, The Performance of Artaud in Ireland, Etudes Irlandaises, 33, (2), 2008, p43 - 52
Foreword in, editor(s)Ravi Chaturvedi , Theatre and Democracy, Jaipur & New Delhi, Rawat, 2008, pp9 - 11, [Brian Singleton]
Performing Conflict Migration and Testimony in, editor(s)Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin , Performing Global Networks, Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp25 - 37, [Brian Singleton]
Sick, Dying, Dead, Dispersed: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women's Theatre in, editor(s)Melissa Sihra , Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp186 - 200, [Brian Singleton]
Part of the Show: The Global Networking of Irish Eurovision Song Contest Fans in, editor(s)Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin , Performing Global Networks, Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp139 - 162, [Karen Fricker, Elena Moreo, Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Karen Fricker & Elena Moreo, Performing the queer network. Fans and Families at the Eurovision Song Contest, SQS: Journal of Queer Studies in Finland, 2, (2), 2007, p12 - 24
Hunters, Heroes and the Hegemonically Masculine Fantasies of Depserate Housewives in, editor(s)Janet McCabe & Kim Akass , Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence, London & New York, I. B. Tauris, 2006, pp106 - 116, [Brian Singleton]
Am I Talking to Myself? Men, Masculinities and the Monologue in Contemporary Irish Theatre in, editor(s)Clare Wallace , Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity, Prague, Litteraria Pragensia, 2006, pp260 - 277, [Brian Singleton]
Queering the Church: Sexual and Spiritual Neo-Orthodoxies in Six Feet Under in, editor(s)Kim Akass & Janet McCabe , Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die For, London & New York, I. B. Tauris, 2005, pp161 - 173, [Brian Singleton]
Ravi Chaturvedi & Brian Singleton, Ethnicity & Identity: Global Performance, New Delhi, Rawat, 2005, 1 - 460pp
Contemporary Theatre Review, London, Taylor & Francis, [ed.], 2005
Karen Fricker & Brian Singleton, Irish Theatre: Conditions of Criticism, Modern Drama, 47, (4), 2004, p561 - 571
Modern Drama, XLVII, 4, (2004), ii + 561 - 734p, Karen Fricker & Brian Singleton, [eds.], Guest Editor: Critical Ireland
Brian Singleton, Oscar Asche, Orientalism and British Musical Comedy, Westport, CT & London, Praeger, 2004, xiv + 1 - 219pp
New Theatre Quarterly, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, [ed.], 2004
The Revival Revised in, editor(s)Shaun Richards , The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp258 - 270, [Brian Singleton]
Theatre Research international, 27, 1-3, (2003), 1 - 347p, Brian Singleton, [ed.], 2001-3
South Asian Review, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University, [ed.], 2003
Australasian Drama Studies, 43, (2003), 1 - 202p, Brian Singleton & Anna McMullan, [eds.], Guest Editor: Performing Ireland
Theatre Research international, 27, 1-3, (2002), 1 - 316p, Brian Singleton, [ed.], 2001-3
Brian Singleton, A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy in the Wake of September 11, 2001, Theatre Journal, 54, (1), 2002, p119 - 120
Brian Singleton, Overseas Forum: Performing the Orient, The Performing Arts and Film Review, 35, 2001, p166 - 173
Brian Singleton, Strangers in the House: Reconfiguring the Borders of National and Cultural Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre, European Review, 9, (3), 2001, p293 - 303
Theatre Research International, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, [ed.], 2001-2004
Brian Singleton, K. N. Panikkar's Teyyateyyam: Resisting Interculturalism Through Ritual Practice, Indian Literature, XLV, (5), 2001, p133 - 140
Inscenovanie Orientu: Interculturalizmus,Vládnice Mocnosti a Globálna Konumná Spolocnost in, editor(s)Sonia Simková , Stretnutie Kultúr a Divadlo, Bratislava, VSMU, 2001, pp13 - 28, [Brian Singleton]
Claude Schumacher & Brian Singleton, Artaud on Theatre, New Edition, London, Methuen, 2001, xxxvi + 1 - 246pp
Brian Singleton, Relocating Irish Theatre at the Millennium, Western European Stages, 13, (1), 2001, p103 - 108
Theatre Research International, 26, 1-3, (2001), 1 - 319p, Brian Singleton, [ed.], 2001-3
Brian Singleton, Performing the Orient, Journal of the Korean Society for Theatre History Research, 4, 2001, p7 - 23
South Asian Review, Bloomington, IN, South Asian Literary Association, [eds.], 2000-2003
Brian Singleton, Challenging Myth and Tradition: National/Cultural Identity and the Irish Theatrical Canon, Modern Drama, XLIII, (2), 2000, p265 - 275
The Cartoucherie: The Théâtre du Soleil's Performative Site in, editor(s)Irene Eynat Confino & Eva Sormova , Space and the Postmodern Stage, Prague, Theatre Institute, 2000, pp138 - 145, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Artaud: Le Théâtre et son double (Critical Guides to French Texts No. 118), London, Grant & Cutler Ltd, 1998, 1 - 98pp
Brian Singleton, Introduction: The Pursuit of Otherness for the Investigation of Self, Theatre Research International, 22, (2), 1997, p93 - 97
Brian Singleton, Receiving Les Atrides Productively: Mnouchkine's Intercultural Signs as Intertexts, Theatre Research International, 22, (1), 1997, p19 - 23
Theatre Research International, 22, 2, (1997), 93-184 - Brian Singleton, [ed.], Guest editor: Theatre & Interculturalism
Brian Singleton, K. N. Panikkar's Teyyateyyam: Resisting Interculturalism Through Ritual Practice, Theatre Research International, 22, (2), 1997, p162 - 169
Brian Singleton, The Representation of Shakespeare Through the Discourse of Interculturalism by Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil, ALFA (Actes de langue française et llinguistique), 10/11, 1997, p139 - 144
Brian Singleton, Body Politic(s): The Actor as Mask in the Théâtre du Soleil's Les Atrides and La Ville parjure, Modern Drama, 39, (4), 1996, p618 - 625
Mnouchkine and Shakespeare: Intercultural Theatre Practice in, editor(s)Holger Klein & Jean-Marie Maguin , Shakespeare and France, Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp307 - 326, [Brian Singleton]
Fantasio by Alfred de Musset in, editor(s)Claude Schumacher , Musset: Five Plays, London, Methuen, 1995, pp39 - 78, [Brian Singleton, translator]
Brian Singleton, Interculturalist Theatre Practice and the Postmodern Debate, Gramma: Journal of Dramatic theory and Criticism, 3, 1995, p157 - 167
Earliest Memories: Spectating the Periphery of Theatre in, editor(s)Roger Deldime , Le Théâtre et le temps qui passe, Brussels, Editions Lansman, 1995, pp152 - 155, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, Patrick Mason and the Preservation of the Irish Theatre Repertoire at the Abbey, Western European Stages, 6, (3), 1994, p69 - 74
Later Nineteenth-Century Theatre in, editor(s)David Baguley , A Critical Bibliography of French Literature, The Nineteenth Century , Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1994, pp1250 - 1286, [Brian Singleton & Claude Schumacher]
Brian Singleton, Postmodernisme et interculturalisme, L'Annuaire théâtrale: Revue québecoise d'études théâtrales, (15), 1994, p107 - 119
Mnouchkine's Shakespeare: A Textual Record of a Theatre's Practice in, editor(s)Nicole Vigouroux-Frey , Traduire le théâtre aujourd'hui, Rennes, Le Spectaculaire/Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1993, pp111 - 118, [Brian Singleton]
Brian Singleton, The Beauty of the Resistable Tyrant: Tamerlan at the Théâtre de l'Epée de bois, Theatre Research International, 16, (2), 1991, p83 - 108
These Childish Things by Raymond Cousse in, editor(s)David Bradby & Claude Schumacher , New French Plays, London, Methuen, 1989, pp67 - 91, [Brian Singleton, translator]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Brian Singleton, States of Play: an interview with Professor Brian Singleton (Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama and Theatre, TCD) on labour and value in the neoliberal university', Hard Graft: Performance, Labour and Value, Queens University Belfast (online), 28-29 May, 2021, Irish Society for Theatre Research
Research Expertise
Description
Main research interests are in the field of orientalism and interculturalism in performance, with a particular specialism in Irish, British and French cultural history. In addition he publishes in the area of contemporary devised performance.Projects
- Title
- ANU Productions: The Monto Cycle
- Summary
- Current monograph project analysing four productions of the celebrated and award-winnning Irish company, ANU Productions, and their four-part series 'The Monto Cycle'.
- Date From
- 2015
- Date To
- 2016
Recognition
Awards and Honours
ATHE Excellence in Editing Award
Honorary Fellowship, Rose Bruford College
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Japan Foundation Artists Fellowship
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Memberships
International Federation for Theatre Research
American Society for Theatre Research
Irish Society for Theatre Research