6th Lecture in the Fourth Seamus Heaney Lecture Series

 

Dr Brenna Clarke, Head of the English Department in St Patrick’s College, delivered the penultimate lecture of the current Seamus Heaney Lecture series on the 5th of March. Her topic was Drama and Film, The Dynamics of Difference:  From Boucicault to Beckett-From Real to Reel. Her wide ranging talk explored differences and similarities in the two mediums, exploring such diverse dynamics as the history of both, their uses of time and space, the loss of the communal through new technology and for good measure plays on film such as those of Beckett. Fascinating clips from films illustrated aspects such as the early use of special effect in Georges Méliès Trip to the Moon through to the intertextuality of the classical musical Singing in the Rain.

Peter McDermot, Dr Brenna Clarke, Pat Burke

 

The next and last lecture in the current Series, on 23 April 2007, will be given by Dr John Buckey, renowned composer and member of the Music Department, St Patrick's College. The topic will be , 'Drama and music.'

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Last Updated: Thursday March 08 2007