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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 | Teresa Deevy | 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 |
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, 1998. xxv |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | 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... |
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, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | It ran for seven performances, and was printed in the Irish Literary Journal. An Abbey
revival on 23 August 1937 ran for six performances. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline “Playwrights. Teresa Deevy”. The Playwrights Database, 2003. |
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, 1970, p. v - xiii. xi |
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, 1970, p. v - xiii. xi Innes, Christopher. Edward Gordon Craig. Cambridge University Press, 1983. 143, 221 |
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, 1970, p. v - xiii. x |
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, 1970, p. v - xiii. ix |
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, 7 Apr. 2004. |
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 | 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, 1970, p. v - xiii. x |
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 | 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 |
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