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Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company
2018
Text Matters
Making reference to Luce Irigaray's definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of the Troubles in the play Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc—a pioneering all-female theatre company which operated in Belfast in the 1980s and early 1990s. The article discusses the achievement of the company in the local context and offers a reading of Somewhere over the
doi:10.1515/texmat-2018-0009
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