The title of Donald E. Morse’s edited volume quotes the first sentence of the first essay in the collection, Christopher Murray’s “The Irish theatre: The First Hundred Years, 1897-1997”: “The best theatre is always in transition”. The whole volume is intended as a homage to Murray’s major contribution as a critic of Irish theatre, and more specifically as a response to this essay which was initially published in 1997, a hundred years after the inception of the modern Irish theatre in 1897. M...