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THE ABBEY THEATRE
Ireland's National Theatre The First 100 Years Christopher Fitz-Simon PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Christopher Fitz-Simon celebrates the Abbey Theatre's centenary by offering a witty chronological survey of the company's distinguished and colorful history. Beautifully illustrated with cartoons, sketches, and production photographs, The Abbey Theatre: The First 100 Years provides an overview of the great actors, directors, and playwrights of twentieth-century Irish theater, as well as detailing the company's long and illustrious relationship with American theaters and playwrights. It also contains a complete list of plays produced at the Abbey Theatre since 1904 and features a preface by its current artistic director, Ben Barnes. Christopher Fitz-Simon was literary manager and artistic director of the Abbey and Peacock Theatres. He is a broadcaster and writer, and is the author of The Boys: A Biography of Micheÿl MacLíammóir and Hilton Edwards. At present he is also Visiting Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Ulster. ISBN 0-500-28426-1 · 7 3/4" x 93/8" · 200 illustrations, 20 in color · 208 pages · THEATER / IRISH |
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Dublin's Abbey Theatre opened its doors to the public on December 27, 1904. Over the course of the past century, it has survived fire, riot, and perpetual artistic disagreement to become one of the greatest theaters in the world, presenting over 740 new plays by some of the greatest Irish writers of the modern age, including W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, and Brian Friel.