Gavin Kostick

Gavin Kostick is a playwright, dramaturge at the LIR academy, Dublin,^[1] and literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company.^[2] He founded the Show in a Bag series of plays.^[3]

Works

Gavin Kostick's dramatic works include The Ash Fire (1992), winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award,^[4][5][6] which is based loosely on the experiences of his grandfather who entered Ireland after he 'jumped ship in the wrong port'.^[7]

Kostick's other plays include Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig (1994),^[8] The Flesh Addict (1996),^[9] Doom Raider (2000),^[10] The Asylum Ball (2000),^[11] Contact (2002),^[12] The Medusa (2003),^[13] a new interpretation of Homer's Odyssey (2023),^[14][15] Fight Night (2010),^[16] Swing (2013),^[17][18] At the Ford (2015),^[19] Games People Play (2015),^[20] winner of the Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, Pocket Music^[21] Gym Swim Party (2019),^[22] and Invitation to a Journey (2016).^[23] After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote This is What we Sang (2009),^[24] a play that was performed at the TriBeCa Synagogue (New York)^[25] and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies.^[26]

Gavin Kostick was the librettist for Raymond Deane’s opera The Alma Fetish.^[27] In 2007, he won the Spirit of the Fringe Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival for his five-hour performance as Marlow from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.^[28]

Personal life

He is the brother of the novelist and historian Conor Kostick.^[29]

References

1. "Kostick,Gavin". Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
2. Sáoirse Goes (19 November 2021). "Speaking with Gavin Kostick". University Times. Dublin.
3. Flynn, Deirdre; Murphy, Ciara L. (2022). Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980-2020. Taylor & Francis. p. 85.
4. Jordan, Eamonn; Weitz, Eric (2008). The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance. Springer. p. 309.
5. "Theater Reviews". New York Magazine. New York. 20 December 1993.
6. "Theatre Reviews". Times Literary Supplement. London. 1993.
7. King, Jason (2005). "Interculturalism and Irish Theatre.The Portrayal of Immigrants on the Irish Stage". The Irish Review. 33. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
8. Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
9. Weitz, Eric (2004). The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Peter Lang. p. 67.
10. Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
11. Salis, Loredana (2010). Stage Migrants. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 60.
12. Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
13. Kinevane, Pat (2014). Silent and Forgotten. Methuen Drama.
14. "A Handy Guide to 99 of the Best Irish Festivals in 2023". Irish Times. Ireland. 14 January 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
15. "Future of the Past". 27 January 2023.
16. "This Weekend in Limerick". The Limerick Post. Ireland. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
17. "Community Noticeboard". The Independent. Ireland. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
18. "Behind the Curtain: The Dark Arts of Dramaturgy". The Irish Times. Ireland. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
19. "Review: At the Ford". The Independent. Ireland. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
20. "The Games People Play". The Galway Advertiser. Ireland. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
21. "A Directors Journey". The Independent. Ireland. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
22. "Gym Swim Party review". The Irish Times. Ireland. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
23. Kelly, Sonya; Stapleton, Noni; McAuliffe, Margaret (2017). Wheelchair on My Face; Charolais; The Humours of Bandon. Bloomsbury.
24. "Jews schmooze in the city festival". The Jewish Chronicle. London. 15 October 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
25. Corey Kilgannon (22 September 2010). "Irish Actors Get a Taste of Yiddish Theater". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
26. Fox, Christie L. "Singing Difference: Viewing Belfast Jews through Gavin Kostick's This is What We Sang". Utah State University. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
27. Filler, Susan M. (2018). Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries. Routledge.
28. "Kostick,Gavin". Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
29. Kostick, Conor (2008). The Social Structure of the First Crusade. Leiden: Brill. p. ix.