Review: Coming off Rage? Angry Young Women at the Royal Court in Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome, Gary Mitchell's Loyal Women, and Stella Feehily's Duck

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review: After a number of plays focusing on issues of race, questions of gender are back on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre, where three new productions of the autumn/winter season feature angry female protagonists. While the debut plays by Lucy Prebble and Stella Feehily explore the (suppressed) rage of "ladettes" (thus offering a female alternative to the lads so popular in the dramatic New Writing of the 1990s), the established Irish dramatist Gary Mitchell tackles the female share of violence in the Northern Ireland conflict.