Abbey Theatre

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...

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...

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.

AG 's first full-length play, The Image, opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

The Abbey Theatre , Dublin, produced AG 's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, translated from Molière 's Le médecin malgré lui, the first of her Molière translations..

AG published an historical account of the Abbey Theatre entitled Our Irish Theatre, subtitled A Chapter of Autobiography.

Augusta Gregory was a highly energetic and creative force in the Irish Literary Revival, which began in the late nineteenth century. Material from her collections and translations of Irish folklore, epics, and oral poetry inspired...

In 1895 Robert was awarded a scholarship to attend Harrow and study the classics. After an undistinguished career there, he went on to Oxford , where he became an amateur boxer. Later he aspired to...

Sean O'Casey submitted his first play to the Abbey in 1919, and became friendly with AG in 1924 during the successful Abbey run of his play Juno and the Paycock. He was invited to...

By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...

AG wrote several first-rate comedies (many of them set in the fictional Irish village of Cloon), yet she found them difficult and was often apologetic about writing them. She claimed to have created them primarily...