Teatro que habla de su momento: Melt (2017) de Shane Mac an Bhaird

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10705

Palabras clave:

Shane Mac an Bhaird, Melt, Antropoceno, activismo social, impacto medioambiental, teatro irlandés contemporáneo

Resumen

En Melt (2017), de Shane Mac an Bhaird, dos científicos irlandeses intentan alcanzar el éxito con su trabajo en la Antártida, mientras Veba, una criatura femenina que han descubierto bajo un lago glacial, cuestiona la realidad o fantasía del episodio. El estudio llevado a cabo en este artículo considera, en un primer término, el contexto de creación de la obra, a través de la presentación del concepto de nuevos teatros irlandeses en el nuevo milenio; esto implica la aparición de nuevas compañías y movimientos de activismo social que desafían el significado del teatro. A continuación, se presenta un análisis de Irlanda y el Antropoceno, para contextualizar la temática de la obra e introducir otros activismos de justicia social, en forma de proyectos culturales, que reclaman la reducción del impacto medioambiental y construyen un trasfondo para entender la aparición de Melt. El estudio de la obra desde estas perspectivas conducirá a las conclusiones, que pretenden mostrar por qué Melt ofrece y confirma nuevas perspectivas en el teatro irlandés contemporáneo. Además, el artículo se propone como contribución a la falta de atención crítica sobre la obra.

Biografía del autor/a

María del Mar González Chacón, University of Oviedo

María del Mar González Chacón lectures at the Department of English, French and German Philology of the University of Oviedo, in the Principality of Asturias, Spain, where she teaches English language and literature. Her main areas of research are contemporary Irish theatre, with a special interest in the plays of Marina Carr and her rewriting of Greek myths, the translations and adaptations of Spanish plays by Irish playwrights, with a focus on the theatre of Federico García Lorca in Ireland. Her latest publications are “The Concept of the Edge in the Plays of Marina Carr,” Roczniki Humanistyczne (2020), ““This is not about love, this is about guilt and terror”: Phaedra Backwards (2011) and forwards by Marina Carr,” Irish Studies Review (2020), ““Speaking through Another Culture”: Frank McGuinness’s Version of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba),” Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (2019) and “‘Walking the boundaries’: Lynne Parker’s unpublished version of Federico García Lorca’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba”, in Studies in Theatre and Performance (2022). She has been a visiting researcher at Moore Research Institute (National University of Ireland Galway), Institute of Irish Studies (Queen’s University Belfast) and Women’s Studies Center (University of York). She has been the vice-president of ASYRAS (Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies) and is the secretary of Archivum Revista de Filología.

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17-03-2022

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María del Mar González Chacón. (2022). Teatro que habla de su momento: Melt (2017) de Shane Mac an Bhaird. Estudios Irlandeses, 17(1), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10705

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Vol. 17 Núm. 1 (2022): Issue 17 - 2022

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