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.
