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Fishamble: The New Play Company Presents
"Certain Individual Women" A poetry-play by Julie Morrissy. Directed by Jim Culleton. As part of its ongoing commitment to staging work that engages in the national debate on important issues, Fishamble teamed up with Julie Morrissy to stage some very special events in 2023, leading up to the (delayed) Referendum on the role of women in the Irish Constitution. In University of Galway, and in Notre Dame University’s Dublin centre in the home of Daniel O’Connell, Fishamble presented readings of excerpts from “Certain Individual Women” by Julie Morrissy, followed by post-show discussions with some of Ireland’s leading legal experts in family and Constitutional law. The panel discussion in University of Galway featured Julie Morrissy, Jim Culleton, Miriam Haughton and Roja Fazaeli. The panel discussion in Notre Dame Dublin featured Julie Morrissy, Jim Culleton, Adam Hanna (UCC English) and Maebh Harding (UCD Law). “Certain Individual Women” has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Newman Fellowship in Creativity, the MAKE Theatre Award, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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Cast
Hannah James Scott Esther Ayo James Juliette Crosbie |
Creative Team
Written by Julie Morrissy Directed by Jim Culleton |
Past Performances
25 September O’Donoghue Theatre, University of Galway
26 October O'Connell House, Notre Dame Dublin, 58 Merrion Square
25 September O’Donoghue Theatre, University of Galway
26 October O'Connell House, Notre Dame Dublin, 58 Merrion Square
Pictures from "Certain Individual Women"
Comments on "Certain Individual Women"
“Julie Morrissy’s…experimental work explicitly recasts legal texts, breaking their assured surfaces to reveal lasting human pain, a striking achievement…”
—Lucy Collins, Associate Professor of Poetry, University College Dublin
“Morrisy [is] a poet who is not only interested in the technicality of legal mechanisms but also in unravelling the physical structures of the law as literature, as part of a rejection of lyric form and implicitly of the patriarchal form of law itself.”
—Roisín Á. Costello, Assistant Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin
“By selecting elements from an existing law…by taking and twisting these weighty words into a new shape and giving them new meaning, [Morrissy’s] work is exemplary of the tendency of Irish artists to creatively engage with the legal circumstances of the country, and reimagine them.”
—Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature, University College Cork
“Julie Morrissy’s…experimental work explicitly recasts legal texts, breaking their assured surfaces to reveal lasting human pain, a striking achievement…”
—Lucy Collins, Associate Professor of Poetry, University College Dublin
“Morrisy [is] a poet who is not only interested in the technicality of legal mechanisms but also in unravelling the physical structures of the law as literature, as part of a rejection of lyric form and implicitly of the patriarchal form of law itself.”
—Roisín Á. Costello, Assistant Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin
“By selecting elements from an existing law…by taking and twisting these weighty words into a new shape and giving them new meaning, [Morrissy’s] work is exemplary of the tendency of Irish artists to creatively engage with the legal circumstances of the country, and reimagine them.”
—Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature, University College Cork
Julie Morrissy is a poet, academic, and critic. From 2021-22, she was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland and the National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications and papers are archived at the National Library of Ireland, and her work has been exhibited at Project Arts Centre and the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Her debut collection Where, the Mile End (2019) is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). www.juliemorrissy.com
