Abbey Theatre

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
AG 's first full-length play, The Image, opened 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.
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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, 1994.
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Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982.
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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, 1983, p. ix - xxvi.
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Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982.
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Performance of text Augusta Gregory
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..
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.
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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. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
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, 2003.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
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. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
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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
The Abbey Theatre put on TD 's powerful new one-act play entitled The King of Spain's Daughter.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Timeline
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
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.
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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 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.
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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.

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