Why Belfast's International Arts Festival Never Ends

Great stories never end, says the Belfast International Arts Festival.The stage is littered with bodies. At the front, the heroine lies in a splatter of her own blood; the hero is cowering at the back, sobbing. Everyone you were rooting for is either traumatised or dead. The bad guys have won, everything worth fighting for is lost, and if this was an episode of a popular TV show, Twitter would be a torrent of anguished rage-tweeting:We have to wait until next week / next April to find…