«Mark O’Rowe is one of contemporary theatre’s great extremists - vivid, violent, beautiful, grotesque, each play a savage war between form and content. It takes some daring to explore the minefields he creates and in this very welcome volume, the authors do so with an intelligence that matches their intrepidity. Anyone with an interest in Irish theatre now will want to read it.»(Fintan O’Toole)

• CONTENTS: Jimmy Fay: A Sense of Place, A Place of Dread - David S. Clare: «Keep the Aspidistra Flying»: The Satirizing of Celtic Tiger, «Aspirational» Lifestyles in Mark O’Rowe’s Early Work - Thomas B. Costello: Expletive Narrative: Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie: The Early Critical Reception of Dublin’s Dark Diegetic Narrative - Aidan Kelly: The Small Guy with the Glasses - Sara Keating: Crestfall: A Production Study - Tim Barrett: Performativity and Class in Mark O’Rowe’s Monologue Plays - Emma Creedon: From «Up-Yer-Hole» Theatre to the Shakesqueer: Made in China (2001) and Henry IV Part I (2002) - Marie Kelly: At the Terminus in the Brain: Illusions of Consciousness in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus - Nelson Barre: Interwoven Locality and a Globalized Dublin: Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus - Harvey O’Brien: Violated Sanctuaries: The Screenplays of Mark O’Rowe - Emilie Pine: Review of Our Few and Evil Days - Cormac O’Brien: A Tallaght of the Mind: In Conversation with Mark O’Rowe.

«Mark O’Rowe is one of contemporary theatre’s great extremists - vivid, violent, beautiful, grotesque, each play a savage war between form and content. It takes some daring to explore the minefields he creates and in this very welcome volume, the authors do so with an intelligence that matches their intrepidity. Anyone with an interest in Irish theatre now will want to read it.»(Fintan O’Toole)

• CONTENTS: Jimmy Fay: A Sense of Place, A Place of Dread - David S. Clare: «Keep the Aspidistra Flying»: The Satirizing of Celtic Tiger, «Aspirational» Lifestyles in Mark O’Rowe’s Early Work - Thomas B. Costello: Expletive Narrative: Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie: The Early Critical Reception of Dublin’s Dark Diegetic Narrative - Aidan Kelly: The Small Guy with the Glasses - Sara Keating: Crestfall: A Production Study - Tim Barrett: Performativity and Class in Mark O’Rowe’s Monologue Plays - Emma Creedon: From «Up-Yer-Hole» Theatre to the Shakesqueer: Made in China (2001) and Henry IV Part I (2002) - Marie Kelly: At the Terminus in the Brain: Illusions of Consciousness in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus - Nelson Barre: Interwoven Locality and a Globalized Dublin: Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus - Harvey O’Brien: Violated Sanctuaries: The Screenplays of Mark O’Rowe - Emilie Pine: Review of Our Few and Evil Days - Cormac O’Brien: A Tallaght of the Mind: In Conversation with Mark O’Rowe.