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Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also helped to establish two major Irish theatre companies (Charabanc and DubbelJoint) as well as playing a major role in theatre-in-education through her plays for Replay Productions. From her earliest work with Charabanc in the early 1980s to the present day, Jones´s work has engaged with Irish (and, more often than not, specifically Northern Irish) experience in ways that reveal the extent to which the personal is political in a distinctive form of popular theatre. This volume of essays engages critically with Jones´s oeuvre, her reception in Ireland and beyond, and her position in the canon of contemporary drama.

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CONTENTS: Eugene McNulty: Marie Jones and Charabanc: Popular Theatre in / for Northern Ireland - Charlotte J. Headrick: Finding her legs: Lay Up Your Ends and Marie Jones´s international success - Deirdre O´Leary: Purchasing Power: Material Culture and the Function of America in Marie Jones´s post Charabanc plays - Wei H. Kao: An Alternative Peace Process: Violence and Reconciliation in Marie Jones´s Plays - Fiona Coffey: Marie Jones and the DubbelJoint Theatre Company: Performance, Practice, and Controversy - Eleanor Owicki: "I am a Protestant Man, I´m an Irish Man" : Politics, Identity, and A Night in November in Performance - Catherine Rees: Masculinity and the Performance of Gendered Identities in the plays of Marie Jones - Shonagh Hill: "Popular Feminisms" and the Radical Within: Menopausal Women´s Desire for Visibility in Marie Jones´s Women on the Verge of HRT - Dawn Fowler: Women´s Suffrage and the Politics of Militancy in The Milliner and The Weaver .

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