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Kostick's other plays include ''Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig'' (1994),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> ''The Flesh Addict'' (1996),<ref>{{cite book |last=Weitz |first=Eric |date=2004 |title= The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre |publisher=Peter Lang |page=67}}</ref> ''Doom Raider'' (2000),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> ''The Asylum Ball'' (2000),<ref>{{cite book |last=Salis |first=Loredana |date=2010 |title= Stage Migrants |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |page=60}}</ref> ''Contact'' (2002),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> ''The Medusa'' (2003),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> a new interpretation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (2023),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 January 2023 |title=A Handy Guide to 99 of the Best Irish Festivals in 2023 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2023/01/14/a-handy-guide-to-99-of-the-best-irish-festivals-in-2023/ |newspaper=Irish Times |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.classicsnow.ie/ |title=Future of the Past |date=27 January 2023 }}</ref> ''Fight Night'' (2010),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 December 2021 |title=This Weekend in Limerick |url= https://www.limerickpost.ie/2021/12/02/this-weekend-in-limerick-the-mary-wallopers-paddy-mulcahy-fight-night/ |newspaper=The Limerick Post |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''Swing'' (2013),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=9 November 2022 |title=Community Noticeboard |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/gorey-community-noticeboard-42125364.html; |newspaper=The Independent |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=8 October 2013 |title=Behind the Curtain: The Dark Arts of Dramaturgy |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/behind-the-curtain-the-dark-arts-of-dramaturgy-1.1553049 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''At the Ford'' (2015),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 December 2021 |title=Review: At the Ford |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/review-at-the-ford-a-family-conflict-as-viewed-through-a-greek-irish-prism-31569738.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''Games People Play'' (2015),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 April 2015 |title=The Games People Play |url=https://www.advertiser.ie/Galway/article/77063/the-games-people-play-the-play-for-the-negative-equity-generation |newspaper=The Galway Advertiser |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> winner of the Best New Play at the ''Irish Times'' Theatre Awards, ''Pocket Music''<ref>{{ cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=26 March 2017 |title=A Directors Journey |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/festivals/stage-a-directors-journey-from-musical-assassins-to-an-exploration-of-love-35560210.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''Gym Swim Party'' (2019),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=13 September 2019 |title=Gym Swim Party review|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/gym-swim-party-review-an-epic-battle-on-a-contemporary-stage-1.4017029 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> and ''Invitation to a Journey'' (2016).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Sonya |last2=Stapleton |first2=Noni |last3=McAuliffe |first3=Margaret |date=2017 |title= Wheelchair on My Face; Charolais; The Humours of Bandon |publisher=Bloomsbury}}</ref> After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote ''This is What we Sang'' (2009),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=15 October 2009 |title=Jews schmooze in the city festival|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/community/jews-schmooze-in-city-festival-1.11876 |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |location=London |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref> a play that was performed at the Synagoge for the Arts (New York)<ref>{{cite news |author=Corey Kilgannon |date=22 September 2010 |title=Irish Actors Get a Taste of Yiddish Theater|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/community/jews-schmooze-in-city-festival-1.11876 |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref> and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/english_facpub/300/ |title=Singing Difference: Viewing Belfast Jews through Gavin Kostick’s This is What We Sang |last=Fox |first=Christie L. |publisher=Utah State University |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>
Kostick's other plays include ''Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig'' (1994),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> ''The Flesh Addict'' (1996),<ref>{{cite book |last=Weitz |first=Eric |date=2004 |title= The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre |publisher=Peter Lang |page=67}}</ref> ''Doom Raider'' (2000),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> ''The Asylum Ball'' (2000),<ref>{{cite book |last=Salis |first=Loredana |date=2010 |title= Stage Migrants |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |page=60}}</ref> ''Contact'' (2002),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> ''The Medusa'' (2003),<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinevane |first=Pat |date=2014 |title= Silent and Forgotten |publisher=Methuen Drama}}</ref> a new interpretation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (2023),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 January 2023 |title=A Handy Guide to 99 of the Best Irish Festivals in 2023 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2023/01/14/a-handy-guide-to-99-of-the-best-irish-festivals-in-2023/ |newspaper=Irish Times |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.classicsnow.ie/ |title=Future of the Past |date=27 January 2023 }}</ref> ''Fight Night'' (2010),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 December 2021 |title=This Weekend in Limerick |url= https://www.limerickpost.ie/2021/12/02/this-weekend-in-limerick-the-mary-wallopers-paddy-mulcahy-fight-night/ |newspaper=The Limerick Post |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''Swing'' (2013),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=9 November 2022 |title=Community Noticeboard |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/gorey-community-noticeboard-42125364.html; |newspaper=The Independent |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=8 October 2013 |title=Behind the Curtain: The Dark Arts of Dramaturgy |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/behind-the-curtain-the-dark-arts-of-dramaturgy-1.1553049 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''At the Ford'' (2015),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 December 2021 |title=Review: At the Ford |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/review-at-the-ford-a-family-conflict-as-viewed-through-a-greek-irish-prism-31569738.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''Games People Play'' (2015),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 April 2015 |title=The Games People Play |url=https://www.advertiser.ie/Galway/article/77063/the-games-people-play-the-play-for-the-negative-equity-generation |newspaper=The Galway Advertiser |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> winner of the Best New Play at the ''Irish Times'' Theatre Awards, ''Pocket Music''<ref>{{ cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=26 March 2017 |title=A Directors Journey |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/festivals/stage-a-directors-journey-from-musical-assassins-to-an-exploration-of-love-35560210.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> ''Gym Swim Party'' (2019),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=13 September 2019 |title=Gym Swim Party review|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/gym-swim-party-review-an-epic-battle-on-a-contemporary-stage-1.4017029 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Ireland |access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref> and ''Invitation to a Journey'' (2016).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Sonya |last2=Stapleton |first2=Noni |last3=McAuliffe |first3=Margaret |date=2017 |title= Wheelchair on My Face; Charolais; The Humours of Bandon |publisher=Bloomsbury}}</ref> After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote ''This is What we Sang'' (2009),<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=15 October 2009 |title=Jews schmooze in the city festival|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/community/jews-schmooze-in-city-festival-1.11876 |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |location=London |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref> a play that was performed at the [[TriBeCa Synagogue]] (New York)<ref>{{cite news |author=Corey Kilgannon |date=22 September 2010 |title=Irish Actors Get a Taste of Yiddish Theater|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/community/jews-schmooze-in-city-festival-1.11876 |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref> and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/english_facpub/300/ |title=Singing Difference: Viewing Belfast Jews through Gavin Kostick’s This is What We Sang |last=Fox |first=Christie L. |publisher=Utah State University |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>


Gavin Kostick was the librettist for [[Raymond Deane]]’s opera ''The Alma Fetish''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Filler |first=Susan M. |date=2018 |title= Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries |publisher=Routledge}}</ref> He is the brother of the novelist and historian [[Conor Kostick]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Kostick |first= Conor |date= 2008 | title = The Social Structure of the First Crusade |location= Leiden| publisher = Brill |page= ix}}</ref>
Gavin Kostick was the librettist for [[Raymond Deane]]’s opera ''The Alma Fetish''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Filler |first=Susan M. |date=2018 |title= Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries |publisher=Routledge}}</ref> He is the brother of the novelist and historian [[Conor Kostick]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Kostick |first= Conor |date= 2008 | title = The Social Structure of the First Crusade |location= Leiden| publisher = Brill |page= ix}}</ref>

Revision as of 18:26, 18 March 2023


Gavin Kostick is a playwright, dramaturge, and literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company.[1] He founded the Show in a Bag series of plays.[2]

Gavin Kostick's dramatic works include The Ash Fire (1992), winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award,[3][4][5] which is based loosely on the experiences of his grandfather who entered Ireland after he 'jumped ship in the wrong port'.[6]

Kostick's other plays include Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig (1994),[7] The Flesh Addict (1996),[8] Doom Raider (2000),[9] The Asylum Ball (2000),[10] Contact (2002),[11] The Medusa (2003),[12] a new interpretation of Homer's Odyssey (2023),[13][14] Fight Night (2010),[15] Swing (2013),[16][17] At the Ford (2015),[18] Games People Play (2015),[19] winner of the Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, Pocket Music[20] Gym Swim Party (2019),[21] and Invitation to a Journey (2016).[22] After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote This is What we Sang (2009),[23] a play that was performed at the TriBeCa Synagogue (New York)[24] and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies.[25]

Gavin Kostick was the librettist for Raymond Deane’s opera The Alma Fetish.[26] He is the brother of the novelist and historian Conor Kostick.[27]

References

  1. ^ Sáoirse Goes (19 November 2021). "Speaking with Gavin Kostick". University Times. Dublin.
  2. ^ Flynn, Deirdre; Murphy, Ciara L. (2022). Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980-2020. Taylor & Francis. p. 85.
  3. ^ Jordan, Eamonn; Weitz, Eric (2008). The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance. Springer. p. 309.
  4. ^ "Theater Reviews". New York Magazine. New York. 20 December 1993.
  5. ^ "Theatre Reviews". Times Literary Supplement. London. 1993.
  6. ^ King, Jason (2005). "Interculturalism and Irish Theatre.The Portrayal of Immigrants on the Irish Stage". The Irish Review. 33. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  7. ^ Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
  8. ^ Weitz, Eric (2004). The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Peter Lang. p. 67.
  9. ^ Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
  10. ^ Salis, Loredana (2010). Stage Migrants. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 60.
  11. ^ Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
  12. ^ Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
  13. ^ "A Handy Guide to 99 of the Best Irish Festivals in 2023". Irish Times. Ireland. 14 January 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Future of the Past". 27 January 2023.
  15. ^ "This Weekend in Limerick". The Limerick Post. Ireland. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Community Noticeboard". The Independent. Ireland. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  17. ^ "Behind the Curtain: The Dark Arts of Dramaturgy". The Irish Times. Ireland. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  18. ^ "Review: At the Ford". The Independent. Ireland. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  19. ^ "The Games People Play". The Galway Advertiser. Ireland. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  20. ^ "A Directors Journey". The Independent. Ireland. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  21. ^ "Gym Swim Party review". The Irish Times. Ireland. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  22. ^ Kelly, Sonya; Stapleton, Noni; McAuliffe, Margaret (2017). Wheelchair on My Face; Charolais; The Humours of Bandon. Bloomsbury.
  23. ^ "Jews schmooze in the city festival". The Jewish Chronicle. London. 15 October 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  24. ^ Corey Kilgannon (22 September 2010). "Irish Actors Get a Taste of Yiddish Theater". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  25. ^ Fox, Christie L. "Singing Difference: Viewing Belfast Jews through Gavin Kostick's This is What We Sang". Utah State University. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  26. ^ Filler, Susan M. (2018). Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries. Routledge.
  27. ^ Kostick, Conor (2008). The Social Structure of the First Crusade. Leiden: Brill. p. ix.
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