“This volume is a most thought-provoking collection of essays that challenge Irish theater historiographies and point to the opportunities for scholarship on Irish performance and production history. Almost all of the plays discussed in this collection reference the uneasy relationship between experiment and realization and, by doing so, create an alternative, rich canon of unperformed plays.” - Elaine Sisson, Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, in: breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, May 4, 2017“Beyond Realism is an ambitious undertaking. Covering more than a century of Irish theater, the collection reveals that there was not necessarily an acceleration of radical steps away from realism as time moved forward. Rather, the book makes the case that formation of an ‘experimental and unconventional’ canon has been there since the beginning. We just needed to have it pointed out to us.” - Elizabeth Mannion, in: New Hibernia Review 19/4 (Winter 2015)
