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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 | 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 | 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 | John Millington Synge | JMS
's most controversial play, The Playboy of the Western World, premiered at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, starring May Craig
. Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan. 186 Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 13 |
Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's final three-act play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, which he worked and reworked but left unfinished, was staged at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxvi Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 138 |
Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
Occupation | John Millington Synge | In 1904, A. E. Horniman
, an Englishwoman who admired Yeats's dedication to Irish theatre, paid for the renovation of two buildings on Abbey Street and Marlborough Street, Dublin, and offered them free to... |
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 | George Bernard Shaw | Lady Gregory
and W. B. Yeats
produced GBS
's The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxv |
Publishing | George Bernard Shaw | The play was supposed to be performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, but the directors were concerned that its honest portrayal of Ireland would alienate their audience. |
Textual Production | Martin Ross | MR
resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats
and Lady Gregory
to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger... |
Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | As a student in Dublin, KOB
eagerly attended the Abbey Theatre
. This was a period between Synge
and O'Casey
, but she delighted in plays by Shaw
, beginning with Man and Superman. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford. 116-17 |
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 | Jennifer Johnston | Her Selected Short Plays, published in 2003, includes the texts of Moonlight and Music (a one-acter first produced during the YK2 Festival at Dublin in 2000),Mustn't Forget High Noon, O Ananias, Azarias... |
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. |
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