ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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In David Ireland’s Ulster American, an initial meeting between an ambitious British theatre director and Jay, a brash US Oscar-winning star of Irish Catholic descent, here to appear in his new play, seems to signal a fairly standard comedy.
When the female Northern Irish playwright Ruth arrives, things take on a cutting edge as religion, culture, politics and nationalities clash.
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