Contemporary northern Irish Theatre: challenging the Union?

It is a truism to state that Irish theatre has long been and largely remains obsessed with history, though it necessarily comes to the past at an angle, as theatre always works from an absolute present, that of stage representation, and with an abiding imperative, that of fiction and plot. Even in the last two decades of the twentieth century, in play after play, the roots and consequences of the continuing union of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland are examined, discussed and interpreted,..