Abbey Theatre

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a theater in Dublin associated with the Irish National Theatre Society (founded 1901) and the dramas of Synge, Yeats, and Lady Gregory.

Abbey Theatre

an influential theatre in Dublin (opened 1904): associated with it were Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and O'Casey. It was destroyed by fire in 1951 but was rebuilt; it reopened in 1966

Upon the revival of this play at the Abbey Theatre a few weeks ago it was played with this new end.

Now at last I have made a complete revision to make it suitable for performance at the Abbey Theatre.

It is the actors who have made the Abbey Theatre famous, and not the plays.

There have been many other dramatists than these I have mentioned who have had one or more plays produced at the Abbey Theatre.

It was produced shortly after its author became director of the Abbey Theatre, succeeding Mr. Synge in the spring of 1909.

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