Life
1911-?; English-born playwright and Abbey producer, appointed Artistic Director of Abbey Theatre on recommendation of John Masefield; simultaneously Artistic Director at the Abbey and Professor of Drama at Manchester University, leaving the Abbey when his contract expired, Dec. 1971; first work, dramatisation of Frank O’Connor, In The Train; collaborated with O’Connor on subsequent occasions; produced Yeats’s Purgatory with settings by Anne Yeats; there is a portrait by Seán O’Sullivan in the Abbey Theatre.
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Works
The Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre 1904-1979 (NY: Columbia UP 1979).
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Criticism
Lennox Robinson, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre: A History, 1899-1951 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson 1951).
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