Prominent Belfast playwright for whom the Troubles in Northern Ireland were a recurring themeThe playwright Christina Reid, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, was one of a prominent group of Belfast playwrights whose work in the 1980s gave an often flintier and more directly working-class take on the Troubles than the more critically lionised, poetic theatre in Dublin. Along with Anne Devlin, Martyn Lynch, Gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49PM on June 5, 2015