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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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