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This collection focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their
works, both in text and on stage during the latter half of the
twentieth century. The central figure is Samuel Beckett, whom the
contributors use as a springboard to discuss contemporary
playwrights such as Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Marina Carr, and
Conor McPherson, amongst others.
Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on
contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights
and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter half
of the twentieth century. It is symbolic that most of the editorial
work for this book was carried out in 2006, the centenary year of
the birth of Samuel Beckett. While the editors consider Beckett to
be the most important playwright in post-1950 Irish theatre, it
should be noted that the contributors to the book are not bound in
any sense by Beckettian criticism of any kind. The contributors
draw freely on Beckett and his work: some examine Beckett's plays
in detail, while others, for whom Beckett remains an indispensable
springboard to their discussions, pay closer attention to his or
their own contemporaries, ranging from Brian Friel and Frank
McGuinness to Marina Carr and Conor McPherson. The editorial policy
of the book was flexible enough to allow contributors to go as far
back as a hundred years in their attempt to contextualise post-1950
Irish theatre. The works of Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge,
Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and James Joyce are frequently
mentioned throughout the book; this undoubtedly added to the
dynamics of the book, as well as to the rigour which the editors
believe should be apparent in the collection as a whole
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