Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
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Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's The Travelling Man, a miracle play co-written with W. B. Yeats
, was first produced at the Abbey
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. xi Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions. 75 |
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 | 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. http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
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, p. v - xiii. xi |
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 | 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, p. v - xiii. x |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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. http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline “Playwrights. Teresa Deevy”. The Playwrights Database. |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
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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