“Big themes hover around this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. The first has to do with the transition from a monocultural society to a multicultural one, which Ireland is beginning to experience with some ferocity as the success of its ‘Celtic tiger’ economy sucks in more migrants and refugees. Suddenly, this year in Dublin, the youngsters working in the cafes and burger bars are no longer Irish, but North African, Filipino, Russian. It’s a change that has come as a profound culture shock to a country so long used to the experience of mass emigration, depopulation and loss.” – The Scotsman