Description: Written by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, these plays trace the restless urban ambition in contemporary Irish drama to turn the past on its head and look back at the land with scepticism and sometimes a rough, rude glee.
Brief description: Daragh Carville was born in Armagh in 1969. His plays include Language Roulette (1996), Observatory (1999) and Family Plot (2005). Work as a screenwriter includes Middletown (2006) and Cherrybomb (2009). He has won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Prize. This Other City is Daragh's first play published by Oberon. Previous productions have been put on at the Tinderbox in Dublin.