AbbeyTheatre
271 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInspired 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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The Quare Fellow: Audio described programme notes
January 19, 2024 15:20 - 13 minutes - 7.15 MBThe Quare Fellow: Audio described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre
The Old Triangle - Radie Peat
December 19, 2023 13:40 - 1 minute - 1.37 MBOne of the most uniquely recognisable, and critically and popularly lauded, voices in Irish music, Radie Peat – of multi-award winning Lankum and ØXN – collaborates with the Abbey Theatre on its production of Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow, lending her vocals to the lyrics of 'The Old Triangle', which ring out hauntingly throughout the performance. Read more here: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/the-old-triangle/
Somewhere Out There You: Audio Described programme notes
October 27, 2023 14:46 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBAudio Description notes for Somewhere Out There You by Nancy Harris, directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre.
Ghosts on demand: Audio Described programme notes
May 12, 2023 15:43 - 9 minutes - 4.6 MBGhosts on demand: Audio Described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre
Ghosts Audio-described programme notes
May 12, 2023 15:31 - 10 minutes - 4.87 MBGhosts Audio-described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre
Ghosts: Audio Described programme notes
May 12, 2023 15:31 - 10 minutes - 4.87 MBGhosts: Audio Described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre
Tartuffe Post Show Talk - Religious Hypocrisy: A Besetting Irish Failing?
May 03, 2023 14:57 - 42 minutes - 42.4 MBAs part of the run of our new production of Moliere's Tartuffe, we initiated a series of post-show discussions on themes emerging from the new version of the play by Frank McGuinness. The discussions focussed on the origins of these themes in the play and broadened out to encompass reflections on their relevance for Ireland in the past and the present. Our second talk covered Me Too: confronting patriarchy and sexual oppression. This conversation was explored by curator Catriona Crowe along ...
Tartuffe Post Show Talk - Me Too: Confronting Patriarchy and Sexual Oppression
May 03, 2023 14:51 - 38 minutes - 32.1 MBAs part of the run of our new production of Moliere's Tartuffe, we initiated a series of post-show discussions on themes emerging from the new version of the play by Frank McGuinness. The discussions focussed on the origins of these themes in the play and broadened out to encompass reflections on their relevance for Ireland in the past and the present. Our first talk covered Me Too: confronting patriarchy and sexual oppression. For this talk, curator Catriona Crowe was joined on stage by ...
Tartuffe Audio-described programme notes
April 20, 2023 15:47 - 11 minutes - 11.7 MBAudio-described programme note for the Abbey Theatre production of Tartuffe
Tartuffe: Audio Described programme notes
April 20, 2023 15:47 - 11 minutes - 11.7 MBAudio-described programme note for the Abbey Theatre production of Tartuffe
Tales from the Holywell - Audio Described Programme Notes
February 16, 2023 10:41 - 9 minutes - 8.09 MBTales from the Holywell - Audio Described Programme Notes
The Weir - Audio Described Programme Notes
January 04, 2023 16:41 - 14 minutes - 12.5 MBThe Weir - Audio Described Programme Notes
Joyce's Women Audio-described Programme
October 07, 2022 15:48 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MBJoyce's Women Audio-described Programme by AbbeyTheatre
Translations Audio-described Programme Notes
July 29, 2022 16:35 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBTranslations Audio-described Programme Notes by AbbeyTheatre
An Octoroon Audio-described Programme Notes
May 13, 2022 13:20 - 13 minutes - 13.3 MBAudio-described programme notes for the audio described performance of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a radical reboot of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon.
Portia Coughlan Audio-described Programme Notes
March 04, 2022 15:53 - 11 minutes - 8.89 MBProgramme notes for the audio described performance of Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr.
Faith Healer Audio Described Programme Notes
January 13, 2022 10:42 - 9 minutes - 7.5 MBProgramme notes for the audio described performance of Faith Healer by Brian Friel.
The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow by Sebastian Barry
December 20, 2021 15:08 - 2 hours - 304 MBThe 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, Ro...
The Long Christmas Dinner Audio Description
December 16, 2021 17:11 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBProgramme notes for the audio described on-demand performance of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder.
Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? by Christina Reid
December 13, 2021 11:57 - 1 hour - 139 MBDid 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 group...
An Triail by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
December 06, 2021 13:16 - 1 hour - 263 MBAn 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 ...
The Evidence I Shall Give by Richard Johnson
November 27, 2021 12:00 - 2 hours - 310 MBSet 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 Donnell...
The Wood of the Whispering by M.J. Molloy
November 22, 2021 10:55 - 2 hours - 365 MBThe loss of traditional rural values in the West of Ireland is central to this play. The results of emigration from the region are no weddings and no children. Those left there are left to totter in to old age. But Sanbatch Daly, a descendant of the derelict Big House is determined to reverse the problem of rural decline. When Con arrives to cut down the wood at the D'Arcy demesne, he encounters Sanbatch living by the abandoned castle gates and soon meets “some comical Irishmen” in the wood o...
Liffey Lane by Maura Laverty
November 15, 2021 13:14 - 2 hours - 285 MBSet in the midst of the poverty, dirt and smells of the Liffey Lane tenements. Food and decent clothing are scarce, and illness common particularly among the children. But there is also kindness and decency, neighbours looking out for each other, a community very different from that of the small Irish town, but still bound together. But this community is being scattered as the tenements are torn down, forcing the residents to find other homes. Chrissie moves through this world, and the more p...
Light Falling by Teresa Deevy
November 08, 2021 12:26 - 1 hour - 138 MBA one-act play set on a sunny afternoon on the north-west coast of Ireland. Pat Scully, a man of 60, stands at the open door of his house and looks out at this garden and the hill-side beyond. Over the course of the action his son John, his daughter-in-law Mary and a visiting English painter and his wife - Kenneth and Ismay Leslie - come and go. John seems quite taken with Ismay. He pays her a good deal of attention. Pat does not like this and becomes angry with his son on Mary’s beh...
Audio Description for What I (Don't) Know About Autism
November 05, 2021 14:25 - 12 minutes - 29.7 MBProgramme notes for the audio described performance of What I (Don't) Know About Autism by Jody O'Neill
The Image by Lady Gregory
November 01, 2021 12:24 - 1 hour - 106 MBA comic tale of Irish village life centring on Thomas Coppinger, a stonecutter, and his wife Mary who states from the outset how much happier she would be in America. When two whales are beached during the night, and the villagers consider that their oil is worth hatfuls of gold, it seems like all of their wishes may finally have come true... Cast: Bryan Burroughs Declan Conlon Fionnuala Gygax Marcus Lamb Fiona Lucia McGarry Máire Ní Ghráinne Ian O'Reilly Don Wycherley Director: Sarah Jane S...
The Words Upon The Window Pane by W.B. Yeats
November 01, 2021 12:24 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBA dramatic exploration of the occult, the play features a seance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected though a medium, along with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa. The Dublin Spiritualists' Association is about to hold a seance in rooms once visited by Stella, the name Jonathan Swift gave to his beloved Esther Johnson. One of the windows has part of a poem by Stella scratched in the glass. After some debate between the various attendees at the seance, amongst whom are a c...
Audio Description for iGirl
October 21, 2021 14:12 - 6 minutes - 11.9 MBProgramme notes for the audio described performance of iGirl by Marina Carr.
In Conversation With - iGirl 'Like String Theory'
October 14, 2021 15:21 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBJessica Traynor in conversation with Marina Carr, Olwen Fouéré and Caitríona McLaughlin. Recorded in the Abbey Theatre rehearsal room, September 27th 2021. Interviewer: Jessica Traynor Sound operator: Aidah Sama Image Credit: Barry McCall
Act Two: Last Orders at the Dockside Audio Play
September 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBThe audio play of Last Orders at the Dockside by Dermot Bolger Last Orders at the Dockside follows the death of an elderly docker, as his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, to celebrate his life. Over the course of an evening awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships. Last Orders at the Dockside premiered at the Abbey Theatre in September 2019, directed by Graham McLaren. This audio versio...
Act One: Last Orders at the Dockside Audio Play
September 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThe audio play of Last Orders at the Dockside by Dermot Bolger Last Orders at the Dockside follows the death of an elderly docker, as his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, to celebrate his life. Over the course of an evening awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships. Last Orders at the Dockside premiered at the Abbey Theatre in September 2019, directed by Graham McLaren. This audio versio...
Walls and Windows Audio Description
September 06, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes - 28.6 MBProgramme notes for audio described on-demand performance of Walls and Windows by Rosaleen McDonagh.
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Lisa O'Neill The Great Hunger
October 06, 2020 09:35 - 43 minutes - 100 MBThe ridiculously talented Lisa O'Neill talks with Lisa Farrelly about finding her way into the drama of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger playing outside at IMMA on the grounds of The Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The two Lisa's discuss artistry, the loneliness of a sharp memory and lit candles that flicker with hope. Recorded on Monday 28 September 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy Image Credit: 04/2020 Broadcast 06/10/2020
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Caitríona Ennis
March 11, 2020 14:45 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBActor Caitríona Ennis talks with Lisa Farrelly about finding the heart of Emer in Corn Exchange & the Abbey Theatre's The Fall of the Second Republic, making the grade and going to war for all her characters. Recorded on Wednesday 4 March 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 03/2020 Broadcast 12/03/2020 Photograph Credit Ros Kavanagh
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Annie Ryan, Andrew Bennett & Mark O'Halloran
March 05, 2020 18:54 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBA grand coalition of Corn Exchange memories, techniques and anecdotes make this podcast a rare recording gem. Mark O'Halloran leads artistic director & founder of The Corn Exchange, Annie Ryan, alongside collaborator, Andrew Bennett, in a conversation that captures twenty five years of their work, so far. Recorded on Tuesday 3 March 2020 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer: Mark O'Halloran Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Conall Coleman 02/2020 Broadcast 06/03/2020
Hansel and Gretel Directors Note
February 11, 2020 11:49 - 6 minutes - 9.03 MBHansel and Gretel – Directors’ Note Written by directors Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett Read by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin. An Irish National Opera, Theatre Lovett and Abbey Theatre Co-Production. Out of the Abbey: Navan, Solstice Arts Centre: Tues 18 Feb Kilkenny, Watergate Theatre: Thurs 20 Feb Wexford, National Opera House: Sat 22 Feb Cork, The Everyman: Tues 25 Feb Tralee, Siamsa Tíre: Thurs 27 Feb Limerick, Lime Tree Theatre: Sat 29 Feb Galway, Town Hall Theatre: Tues 3 Mar Longford, Ba...
Audio Described Programme Notes: Hansel and Gretel
February 11, 2020 10:53 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBAudio Described Programme notes for Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck at the Abbey Theatre. Welcome to the introductory notes for Hansel and Gretel, by Engelbert Humperdinck. This opera is presented by the Abbey Theatre, Irish National Opera and Theatre Lovett. It is directed by Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett. The score was arranged by Richard Peirson who plays piano and conducts the opera. The Set and Costume Designer is Jamie Vartan. Lighting Design is by Sarah Jan...
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Jody O'Neill
February 06, 2020 13:46 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBFor this podcast theatre makerJody O'Neill talks with Lisa Farrelly about creating her show What I (Don't) Know About Autism which is enjoying a sold out run on the Peacock stage. Jody talks about the perception, assumptions, and treatments that are associated with Autism and challenges, educates and celebrates Autistic identity. What I (Don't) Know About Autism Dublin, Peacock Theatre Sat 1 - Sat 8 Feb Cork, The Everyman: Tue 11 – Thu 13 Feb Bray, Mermaid Arts Centre: Sat 15 Feb Cast: Sha...
Audio Described Programme Notes: What I (don't) know about Autism
February 01, 2020 22:25 - 13 minutes - 15.5 MBWelcome to the programme notes for What I (Don't) Know About Autism by Jody O'Neill. The play is directed by Dónal Gallagher and the choreographer is Cindy Cummings. The Set and Costume Designer is Medb Lambert. Lighting Design is by Eoin Winning and the Composer and Sound Design is by Carl Kennedy. This production will be in The Peacock Theatre from 1 – 8 February 2020, Monday to Saturday at 8pm with a matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm. The performance lasts for one hour and ten minu...
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Dan Colley
December 20, 2019 13:04 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBDirector Dan Colley talks with Phil Kingston about Collapsing Horse's devising process, artistic choices and challenging the imagination. Cast: Genevieve Hulme-Beaman & Manus Halligan Based on the short story by: Gabriel García Márquez Adapted for the stage by: Dan Colley, Manus Halligan and Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Directed by: Dan Colley Set and Props Design by: Andrew Clancy Lighting Design by: Sarah Jane Shiels Composition and Sound Design by: Alma Kelliher Photographs: Ste Murray Recorde...
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Marion O'Dwyer
December 13, 2019 10:02 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBActor Marion O'Dwyer talks with Lisa Farrelly about all the roads that have lead her back to Inish; from shy beginnings to determined debutante, from Diceman days to the tenements of O'Casey, from Ballybeg to Broadway. Marion talks about working hard at being funny and the tricky balancing act of keeping a life on and off the stage. Recorded on Tuesday 10 December 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 18/2019 Broadcast 13/12/2019 [Edite...
Abbey Talks Series: Meet the Makers: Cal McCrystal
November 18, 2019 14:03 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBDrama at Inish director Cal McCrystal talks with Lisa Farrelly about the freedom of directing, the limits of comedy and the pride & delight he takes in making people laugh. Recorded on Wednesday 13 November 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 17/2019 Broadcast 19/11/2019 Photo Malcolm McGettigan(C)
Abbey Talks Series: Other Voices: Paddy Daly
October 24, 2019 17:03 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBFor the last order in the series of mini-podcasts, Docker Paddy Daly talks with writer Niamh Gleeson about the working conditions, sharp wit and everyday education of a lifetime on the dockside. Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Friday 4 October. The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 16/2019 Broadcast 25/10/2019 Edi...
Abbey Talks Series: Other Voices: Paddy Nevins
October 22, 2019 11:05 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBFormer Docker Paddy Nevins talks with writer Niamh Gleeson about his forty eight years working on the docks, the dangers of working and the even more dangerous work of navigating a dating life. Paddy talks about being one of the last men on the job, the bond with the men and chasing the last ferry home, Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October. The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Intervie...
Abbey Talks Series: Other Voices: Declan Byrne
October 15, 2019 16:23 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBWriter Niamh Gleeson talks with Declan Byrne of the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society about his life working on the docks, the dangerous altruisim of smuggling and the luckiness of unstickable nicknames. Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October. The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 14/2019 Broadca...
Audio Described Programme Notes: Last Orders at the Dockside: Oct 19 Matinee
October 15, 2019 16:23 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBProgramme notes for the audio described performance of Last Orders at the Dockside at the Abbey Theatre, Saturday matinee, 19th October, 2019. The Programme Notes for Last Orders at the Dockside were prepared by Bríd Ní Ghruagáin who, along with Máirín Harte, will audio describe the performance live on the day. Audio description at the Abbey Theatre is provided by Arts and Disability Ireland with support from The Arts Council. For further details about other accessible performances, text A...
Abbey Talks Series: Other Voices: Michael Foran
October 14, 2019 12:56 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBIn the latest installment of the dockside series, haulier Michael Foran talks with writer Niamh Gleeson about being born on the docks, scutting trucks, mitching school and meeting the scholars on the way home. Michael talks about his love of storytelling, recites his own poetry and delights us with his favourite ballad song. Recorded at the Abbey Theatre Thursday 3 October. The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Fes...
Abbey Talks Series: Other Voices: Margaret Cullen
October 10, 2019 09:23 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBThe second in a series of mini podcasts to accompany Dermot Bolger's Last Orders at the Dockside, writer Niamh Gleeson talks with Margaret Cullen, daughter of docker Glimmer Byrne, about the hardship and happy childhood days being reared in Sheriff street & the way of life that stays with you all your life no matter where you roam. The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Recorded on Wednesday 03 October...
Abbey Talks Series: Other Voices: John 'Miley' Walsh
October 08, 2019 15:01 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBIn the first in a series of mini podcasts to accompany Dermot Bolger's Last Orders at the Dockside, writer Niamh Gleeson talks the ebb and flow of forty six years working on the docks with docker John 'Miley' Walsh. The Abbey Theatre's Last Orders at the Dockside is a Dublin Port Commission and runs as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Recorded on Wednesday 03 October 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer: Niamh Gleeson Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Rob Flynn. 11/20...