Catherine Rees is lecturer in Drama at Loughborough University. She is interested in many aspects of contemporary Irish theatre and political British theatre, particularly plays dealing with nationalism, post-colonialism, gender, violence, trauma and postmodernity. Her doctoral thesis, at Aberystwyth University, was on the plays of Martin McDonagh."http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/staff/Academic%20Staff/Catherine%20Rees.html"