Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; 1 Introduction: 'Because We Are Poor'; 2 Independent Ireland: A Successor State; 3 Theatre, subjectivity, and change; 4 Intranational Problematics: staging the anti-colonial moment; 5 Hope deferred: Neo-colonial relations on Ireland's stages; 6 Them and Us: dramas of a rising tide; 7 Countering Hegemonies: Wet Paint Arts and Calypso Productions; 8 Contested Spaces, Competing Voices: Irish theatre 1990-1998; 9 Conclusion. Re-presenting the nation: theatre, utopia and decolonization; Works cited; Endnotes; Index
