O'Rowe's play, which is set in Dublin, premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2007, as Ireland, too, was "perching precarious." The Celtic Tiger era, which began in 1994, was both at its height and near its end in 2007. One of the chief features of this economic boom was a real estate bubble that brought a huge increase in construction, including, most noticeably, many new skyscrapers. If the cranes in "Terminus" are a sy…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PM on September 10, 2013