Location, location, location: plays and realities: living between the pre-modern and the postmodern in Irish theatre / Cathy Leeney -- Processes and interactive events: theatre and Scottish devolution / Ian Brown -- Theatre and performance in a devolved Wales / Steve Blandford -- Contemporary Catalan theatre and identity: the haunted mirrors of Catalan directors' Shakespeares / Helena Buffery -- Tales from the wild East / Goran Stefanovski -- A national theatre in New Zealand? Why/not? / Sharon Mazer -- Between pride and shame: a dialogic consideration of Honour bound and Reconciliation! What's the story? In pursuit of an Australian national identity / Rea Dennis -- Under the radar: Latina/Hispanic theatre in north Texas / Teresa Marrero -- Challenging racial categorisation through theatre: English-language theatre in Malaysia / Susan Philip -- From springtime erotics to micro-nationalism: altering landscapes and sentiments of the Assamese Bihu dance in north-east India / Aparna Sharma