Contemporary Irish, Northern Irish and British theatre is increasingly staging performances driven by traumatic experiences and events, both individual and collective. Often, these traumas are foregrounded through corporeal and psychic experiences, and relate to sexuality, abuse, racial/ethnic discriminations, mental illnesses and death. This new book analyses how contemporary theatre and performance in Ireland and the UK (including work by Anu Productions, Marina Carr, Sarah Kane, Laura Wade and Theatre of Witness) is addressing, and intervening, in experiences of private and public trauma.