Abbey Theatre

The volume includes detailed accounts of the Abbey 's encounters with English and Irish censorship, including the struggles over Shaw 's The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Synge 's The Playboy of the Western World...

AG 's one-act tragedy The Gaol Gate was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...

AG 's play The Rising of the Moon was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin.

The Unicorn from the Stars, co-written by AG and W. B. Yeats , was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin.

AG 's The Travelling Man, a miracle play co-written with W. B. Yeats , was first produced at the Abbey in Dublin.

The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats had turned down...

TD had her great success with the play Katie Roche, which after its debut at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, was in 1938 seen both at the Abbey's festival (alongside work by O'Casey

TD 's next play for the Abbey Theatre (after her hit, Katie Roche), turned from the present to the past: The Wild Goose, set in 1692 with the oppression of the Penal Laws...

Ernest Blythe , the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, rejected TD 's latest play, Wife to James Whelan.

The only new TD play seen in connection with the Abbey , Dublin, after the rejection of Wife to James Whelan was Light Falling (already heard on radio), staged by Ria Mooney and the...

It ran for seven performances, and was printed in the Irish Literary Journal. An Abbey revival on 23 August 1937 ran for six performances.

This work was awarded, jointly with Paul Vincent Carroll 's Things that are Caesar's, the Abbey 's prize for new playwrights. It was revived at the Abbey in late August 1937. Frank O'Connor wrote...

Meanwhile TD had signed a contract with the Abbey Theatre for her next play, Holiday House, in early 1939. But the play was never produced, and Deevy was never able to get an honest...

For the first time the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, persuaded by Lennox Robinson , put on a production of a play by TD : The Reapers in three acts. Robinson directed.