Abstract
Regional theatre companies emerged during the 1980s as a new force in Irish theatre practice. This chapter contends that theatre practice emanating from regional centres during that period recognized tensions and anxieties within the emerging neoliberal state that sought to de-emphasize the small, the local and the voluntary. Taking published arts policy, archival material, dramatic literature and historical analysis as research material the chapter considers how arts policy and practice in the Republic of Ireland (and indeed in other centres of global free-market capitalism) reflected a debate around autonomy that involved complex negotiations around the national decentralization of power and wealth, a central aspect of which was the sustainable economic viability of small-scale cultural organizations within an increasingly neoliberalist social, cultural and economic infrastructure.
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