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Inspired by the revolutionary ideals of our founders and our rich canon of Irish dramatic writing, our mission is to imaginatively engage with all of Irish society through the production of ambitious, courageous and new theatre in all its forms. We commit to lead in the telling of the whole Irish story, in English and in Irish, and we affirm that the Abbey is a theatre for the entire island of Ireland and for all its people. In every endeavour, we promote inclusiveness, diversity and equality.
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Faith Healer Audio Described Programme Notes
Programme notes for the audio described performance of Faith Healer by Brian Friel.
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The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow by Sebastian Barry
The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow a single figure speaks with five separate male voices. The voices do not talk directly to one another and appear to be different people, but each is a strand of the whole man. Each voice tries to explain, justify and in the end, understand. The voices can be identified by their order of appearance: Father, Murderer, Storyteller, Fetishist and Messiah/Anti-Christ.
The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow by Sebastian Barry, created in collaboration with Olwen Fouéré, Roger Doyle and David Heap.
Creators: Sebastian Barry and Operating Theatre
Writer: Sebastian Barry
Composer: Roger Doyle
Performer: Olwen Fouéré
Director: David Heap
Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash
Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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The Long Christmas Dinner Audio Description
Programme notes for the audio described on-demand performance of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder.
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Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? by Christina Reid
Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? is a painful love story divided by sectarianism, and punctuated by the tasteless racist jokes of an anti-Irish comedian. Allison’s family don’t want her to marry Brian, a Catholic whose brother is serving a life sentence for terrorist offences. Brian’s family don’t want him to marry Allison, as she is a Protestant, and the niece of a Unionist politician.
The play parallels scenes of their two families, doubling characters to bring together two groups so impossibly divided. Allison and Brian’s brilliant optimistic hope that they will rise above the feud becomes heart-breaking as the play shows that the perpetuation of conflict is more powerful than either of them.
Cast:
Ruby Campbell
Desmond Eastwood
Andrea Irvine
Aonghus Óg McAnally
Eleanor Methven
Conor O'Donnell
Barry Simpson
Dan Gordon
Jolene O'Hara
Director: Emma Jordan
Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash
Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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An Triail by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
An Triail is set in Ireland during the 1960s and deals with the pregnancy, and subsequent single motherhood, of a young woman, Máire Ní Chathasaigh. She is shunned by her family after becoming impregnated by Pádraig, a married man and a teacher in the local school, and must leave her parish and move to Dublin to find work to support herself and her child.
Here she is once again marginalised, first for being a single pregnant woman and then for being a single mother. After her accommodation collapses around her child, she moves into a brothel with a prostitute named Mailí who took pity on her. An encounter with the child's father, where he further rejects her and his child, only serves to make matters worse and the girl takes her own life, as well as that of her child, by natural gas inhalation from her oven.
Cast:
Orlaith Ní Chearra
Eoin O Dubhghaill
Mícheál Ó Dubhgháill
Garrett Keogh
Caitríona Ní Chonaola
Caitríona Ní Dhomnaill
Michelle Beamish
Eoin Geoghegan
Hilary Bowen
Peadar Cox
Edward Murphy
Hannah O'Reilly
Neasa Ní Chuanaigh
Director: Darach Ó Tuairisg
Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash
Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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The Evidence I Shall Give by Richard Johnson
Set in the district court of Barrabeg, Co. Kerry, a judge presides over the case of a 13-year-old girl about to be sent to an Industrial School. A humane solicitor argues that young children need “kissing and caressing”, while the Mother Superior of the orphanage, where the girl grew up, says they need harsh discipline in order to learn “humility”. The play ends with the girl taking off her scarf to show her shaved head, a punishment for absconding from the orphanage.
Cast
Deirdre Donnelly
Philip O'Sullivan
Kate Gilmore
Luke Griffin
David Herlihy
Jane Brennan
Jonathan White
Amilia Stewart-Keating
Peter Coonan
Katie McCann
Mark Lambert
Director: Conall Morrison
Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash
Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios
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