She-Beast - A Performance Lecture

She-wolf has been extinct for more than 200 years, and is less than pleased about it. She doesn’t want to be mythologized; she wants to be alive. Tearing apart representations of wolves in Irish contemporary culture with her pointy teeth, She-wolf finds the tender joint of the lupine and the feminine. She is the voice of the colonized, of the women, of the wild creatures, who irrationally demand that history be different.

Emer O’Toole is Associate Professor of Irish Performance Studies at Concordia. She is the author of the books Girls Will Be Girls (Orion: 2015) and Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change (Routledge: 2023). 

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