Abbey Theatre

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...

The Abbey Theatre put on TD 's powerful new one-act play entitled The King of Spain's Daughter.

AG 's The Travelling Man, a miracle play co-written with W. B. Yeats , was first produced at the Abbey in Dublin.

Augusta Gregory was a highly energetic and creative force in the Irish Literary Revival, which began in the late nineteenth century. Material from her collections and translations of Irish folklore, epics, and oral poetry inspired...

CC is best known for her 1920 novel, Open the Door!, and her insightful critical biography of her close friend D. H. Lawrence . Her literary corpus consists of two novels, three biographies, and...

Ernest Blythe , the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, rejected TD 's latest play, Wife to James Whelan.

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.

Meanwhile TD had signed a contract with the Abbey Theatre for her next play, Holiday House, in early 1939. But the play was never produced, and Deevy was never able to get an honest...

The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats had turned down...

This work was awarded, jointly with Paul Vincent Carroll 's Things that are Caesar's, the Abbey 's prize for new playwrights. It was revived at the Abbey in late August 1937. Frank O'Connor wrote...

Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...

The play is written in the style and language of peasant plays made popular earlier in the century by the Abbey Theatre . Markievicz's three central characters are: Eileen, the heroine who is a physically...

TD 's next play for the Abbey Theatre (after her hit, Katie Roche), turned from the present to the past: The Wild Goose, set in 1692 with the oppression of the Penal Laws...

AG published an historical account of the Abbey Theatre entitled Our Irish Theatre, subtitled A Chapter of Autobiography.

By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...