“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Performance of text | John Millington Synge | He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society... |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Dublin's Abbey Theatre
, new home of the Irish National Theatre Society
, opened with WBY
's On Baile's Strand in a triple bill with Lady Gregory
's Spreading the News, and Cathleen ni Houlihan by them both. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's popular comedy about village gossip, Spreading the News, was performed alongside Yeats
's On Baile's Strand and their co-written Cathleen Ni Houlihan for the opening of the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | WBY
's last play, Purgatory, was performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, alongside a revival of the two plays produced when the theatre first opened, Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile's Strand. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's one-act comedy about madness and sanity, The Full Moon, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. xi |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Augusta Gregory
collaborated with Yeats on a revised version of this play, The Unicorn from the Stars, which opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin on 21 November 1907. |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | A production of AG
's The Deliverer and Yeats
's The Hour-Glass at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was the first to use screens designed by Edward Gordon-Craig
. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. xi Innes, Christopher. Edward Gordon Craig. Cambridge University Press. 143, 221 |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | 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. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's one-act tragedy The Gaol Gate was first performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. x |
Performance of text | Seamus Heaney | SH
's version of the Antigone of Sophocles
opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Its title, The Burial at Thebes, echoes in structure his earlier translation The Cure at Troy. Billington, Michael. “The Burial at Thebes”. Guardian Online. |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's second play to open at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was her one-act comedy A Disciple. “Playwrights. Teresa Deevy”. The Playwrights Database. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's play The Rising of the Moon was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. ix |
Performance of text | Jennifer Johnston | It was first produced at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin in 1979. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. “Jennifer Johnston”. doollee.com. Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's third play in thirty months premiered at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin: Temporal Powers, called by Chris Morash
her first major play. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline, Introduction |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Unicorn from the Stars, co-written by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. x |
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