Abbey Theatre

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noun

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

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How to use Abbey Theatre in a sentence

Upon the revival of this play at the Abbey Theatre a few weeks ago it was played with this new end.
Seven Poems and a Fragment|William Butler Yeats
Now at last I have made a complete revision to make it suitable for performance at the Abbey Theatre.
Poems|W. B. Yeats
It is the actors who have made the Abbey Theatre famous, and not the plays.
The Glories of Ireland|Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
There have been many other dramatists than these I have mentioned who have had one or more plays produced at the Abbey Theatre.
Irish Plays and Playwrights|Cornelius Weygandt

It was produced shortly after its author became director of the Abbey Theatre, succeeding Mr. Synge in the spring of 1909.
Irish Plays and Playwrights|Cornelius Weygandt

British Dictionary definitions for Abbey Theatre

Abbey Theatre

noun

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

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