CONTENTS: Christopher Collins: "The Cries of Pagan Desperation": Synge, Riders to the Sea and the Discontents of Historical Time - Siobhan O'Gorman: Scenographic Interactions: 1950s Ireland and Dublin's Pike Theatre - Lisa Fitzgerald: Uneasy Bedfellows: Culture, Commerce and the Rise of the "Production Hub" Paradigm in Irish Theatre - Eamonn Jordan: Respond or Else: Conor MacPherson's The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse - Cormac O'Brien: Gay Masculinities in Performance: Towards a Queer Dramaturgy - Neil Watkins: Perform, or Else! Reflections from an Irish theatre maker.