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Abbey Theatre n (Performing Arts / 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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then it was home to New York for a brief stop before taking ``The
Guys,'' again with Robbins, to Dublin's Abbey Theatre and
the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She met Yeats at that time, who insisted that
she work on his Plays for Dancers at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. " The writers were "motivated by a decisive
reinterpretation and reevaluation of the inherent theatrical qualities
of black vernacular speech and distinctively black traditions" and
"by a Herderian romanticization of the folk inspired chiefly by the
successes of the Abbey Theatre and the Moscow Art Players in the years
immediately preceding the 'negro renaissance'" (197). |
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