Steve Blandford is professor of theatre, film, and television, and director of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations at the University of Glamorgan.

• Introduction – Steve BlandfordChapter 1: Location, Location, Location: Plays and Realities: Living Between the Pre-modern and the Postmodern in Irish Theatre – Cathy LeeneyChapter 2: Processes and Interactive Events: Theatre and Scottish Devolution – Ian BrownChapter 3: Theatre and Performance in a Devolved Wales – Steve BlandfordChapter 4: Contemporary Catalan Theatre and Identity: The Haunted Mirrors of Catalan Directors’ Shakespeares – Helena BufferyChapter 5: Tales from the Wild East – Goran StefanovskiChapter 6: A National Theatre in New Zealand? Why/Not? – Sharon MazerChapter 7: Between Pride and Shame: A Dialogic Consideration of Honour Bound and Reconciliation! What’s the Story? in Pursuit of an Australian National Identity – Rea DennisChapter 8: Under the Radar: Latin@/Hispanic Theatre in North Texas – Teresa MarreroChapter 9: Challenging Racial Categorisation Through Theatre: English-language Theatre in Malaysia – Susan PhilipChapter 10: From Springtime Erotics to Micro-nationalism: Altering Landscapes and Sentiments of the Assamese Bihu dance in North-east India – Aparna Sharma

'This book provides an extremely comprehensive and diverse discussion about theatre and performance in small nations ... it is helpful and most of all fascinating first step into this topic.'