Abstract
By building on the context informing the work of Charabanc Theatre Company, this chapter shifts its focus to consider how second-wave feminist strategies were used as performance through an analysis of artist and activist Margaretta D'Arcy's time in the Armagh Gaol during the republican “no-wash” protest in 1980. This chapter demonstrates how D'Arcy mirrors the performative strategies adopted by Armagh women prisoners through an engagement with second-wave feminist methodologies. Considering the role that theatre archives can play in extending the notion of what scholars define as performance, this chapter argues that through a literal and embodied archiving of her experience on A Wing with the republican prisoners, D'Arcy intentionally situates her experience as performance and also extends the performance of protest beyond the tangible moment.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland. |
| Subtitle of host publication | From Republic to Pandemic |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 68-83 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Edition | First |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Apr 2023 |
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