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GORDON PARSONS believes the Traverse Festival offers a treasure trove for the casual theatre-goer

The Traverse provides a safe bet for the wandering and wondering Festival punter.

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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