The Theatre of Louise Lowe

Louise Lowe has directed 22 productions, rehoming Ireland's ghosts through her 'ethical encounters' in charged immersive performances.

This Element assesses Lowe's creative practice and production history since her early days as a drama facilitator in women's prisons and resource centres in her native Dublin, Ireland, paying particular attention to the economic struggle of Dublin's north inner-city. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer/director, working in Ireland and internationally. She is the Co-Artistic Director of ANU Productions, established with Owen Boss in Dublin in 2009. Lowe is known for facilitating and creating moments of interior reckoning for audiences through immersive performance techniques. These techniques engage spectators in affectively realised moments of understanding that the stories unfolding through performance reflect living histories in need of greater socio-political engagement and intervention. This Element assesses Lowe's creative practice and production history since her days as a drama facilitator in women's prisons and resource centres in Dublin, paying particular attention to the economic struggle of Dublin's north inner-city, the markings of which are potently visible in the work she makes, and how she makes it. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.