Irish playwright Jimmy Murphy's 'The Muesli Belt' plays at Theatre Banshee

In Irish playwright Jimmy Murphy's "The Muesli Belt," at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, a struggling pub owner and his neighbors face encroaching gentrification and the real estate feeding frenzy that was part of the stratospheric (and doomed) 1990s economic boom referred to in Ireland as the "Celtic Tiger."

By Lynne Heffley

November 9, 2012