Abbey Theatre

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.

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.

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.

JMS 's most controversial play, The Playboy of the Western World, premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, starring May Craig .

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

It was first produced at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1979.

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...

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.