Thursday 10 March 2011

ABBEY THEATRE CREDITS (1953-62)


Credits appear in chronological sequence in the order of:-

Role
Play
Author
First Performance

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An Ceann Comhairle
Blaithin Agus An Mac Ri
Unknown
26 December 1953



Maistir an tSaircis
Sonia Agus An Bodach
Padraig O Siochfhradha
21 December 1954



Comhairleoiri eile
An Coimisinear
Tomas O Suilleabhain
17 March 1955



Mortimer Clyne
The Glorious Uncertainty
Brinsley Mac Namara
29 March 1955



Lieut. Langon
The Plough and the Stars
Sean O'Casey
25 April 1955



Na Comharsan
An Posadh
Douglas Hyde
09 May 1955



Oliver Lexington
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
John McCann
25 July 1955



Na Comharsan
An Posadh
Douglas Hyde
08 August 1955

Kieron White
The Will and the Way
Michael J Molloy
05 September 1955



Colonel Blake
Peter
Rutherford Mayne
10 October 1955



Tomas
An tabhairne Saoirse
Risteard De Paor
05 November 1955



Sincope
Ulysses Agus Penelope
Eoghan O Tuairisc
26 December 1955

Sean Scully
The Big Birthday
Hugh Leonard
23 January 1956



Neighbours
Judgement On James O'Neill
Francis Mc Manus
20 February 1956



Jurymen
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
George Bernard Shaw
20 February 1956



An American
Is The Priest At Home
Joseph Tomelty
05 March 1956



Crowd
This Other Eden
Louis Lynch D' Alton
31 March 1956



Frankie O'Carolan
Twenty Years A-Wooing
John McCann
30 April 1956



Johnny Boyle
Juno and the Paycock
Sean O'Casey
14 May 1956



Willie Shanahan
Early and Often
John McCann
16 July 1956



Pol
Iomrall Aithne
Gearoid Mac An Bhua
13 August 1956



John George Smyly
Strange Occurance on Ireland's Eye
Denis Johnston
20 August 1956

The Embezzler
The Quare Fellow
Brendan Behan
08 October 1956

Sir John Fitzwilliam
Gunna Cam agus Slabhra
Sean O'Tuama Oir
21 October 1956



The Red Man
Winter Wedding
Tomas Mac Anna
26 November 1956



Alfred Wilson
A Leap in the Dark
Hugh Leonard
21 January 1957



Sergeant Peter Clarke
Waiting Night
P. S. Laughlin
25 February 1957



Maois
Cead Feadha Sios
Labhras Mac Bradaigh
18 March 1957



Percy Mooney
The Less We Are Together
John O Donovan
22 July 1957

Sean Scully
The Big Birthday
Hugh Leonard
09 September 1957



Rogerigo Callanan
Never the Time and the Place
Lennox Robinson
21 October 1957


Very Rev. Cornelius
The Wanton Tide
Niall Carroll
21 October 1957



Professor Tim
Professor Tim
George Shiels
04 November 1957



Frankie O'Carolan
Give Me A Bed Of Roses
John McCann
25 November 1957



Ruairi
Muireann Agus an Prionnsa
Unknown
26 December 1957



Turloc O'Connor
Look In The Looking-Glass
Walter Macken
10 March 1958



Tommy Mims
Crabbed Youth and Age
Lennox Robinson
28 April 1958

Guard Crowley
Seven Men And A Dog
Niall Sheridan
28 April 1958



Capt. Anthony Palliser
The Scythe and the Sunset
Denis Johnston
19 May 1958

Lucas Barnaby
A Change of Mind
John O Donovan
04 August 1958

Bob Fitzpatrick
The Risen People
James Plunkett
23 September 1958



Paddy Beirne
A Right Rose Tree
Michael J. Molloy
27 October 1958



Oisin Mac Fhinn
Oisin I dTir Na nOg
Liam O Ceallaigh
26 December 1958



George Kinsella
I Know Where I'm Going
John McCann
26 January 1959



James Tyrone Jr.
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O Neill
28 April 1959

Others
Stranger, Beware
Thomas Coffey
17 August 1959

Erskine Craig
Danger, Men Working
J. D. Stewart
19 October 1959



Lieut. Murphy, M.D.
No Man is An Island
Peter Hutchinson
09 November 1959



Seanie Simmons
In Dublin's Fair City
Criostoir O'Floinn
30 November 1959


Tom Fennelly
It Can't Go On Forever
John McCann
01 February 1960

Philip Mannion
The Money Doesn't Matter
Louis Lynch D' Alton
23 May 1960



Tony O' Shea
Anyone Could Rob A Bank
Thomas Coffey
01 August 1960


Fr. "O Priest" McHugh
The Song of the Anvil
Bryan Mac Mahon
12 September 1960

Sean Barry
The Deputy's Daughter
Anthony Butler
14 November 1960



Aonghus
An Sciath Draiochta
Tomas Mac Anna
26 December 1960



Sergeant Bornican
The Evidence I Shall Give
Richard Johnson
30 January 1961

Gerry O'Neill
All The King's Horses
John Mc Donnell
20 March 1961



Frankie O'Carolan
Put a Beggar On Horseback
John McCann
10 April 1961

1st B Special
The Honey Spike Bryan
[Michael] Mac Mahon
22 May 1961



Dairyman
The Post Office
Rabindranath Tagore
27 May 1961



Harry
The Long Sorrow
Thomas Coffey
19 September 1961



Balor
Diarmuid Agus Balor
Aoin [Eoghan] O Tuairisc and Antoine
26 December 1961



Robert Emmet
A Light in the Sky
Donal Giltinan
27 February 1962



Finn Thompson
In Tir-Na-nOg
Gerald Mac Namara
19 March 1962

Peter Murnaghan
They Got What They Wanted  
Louis Lynch D' Alton
09 April 1962



Aedh
The Enemy Within
Brian Friel
06 August 1962



Sammy Rosenberg
A Jew Called Sammy
John McCann
27 August 1962



James Tyrone Jr.
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O Neill
24 September 1962


Orla
An Claoimh Soluis
Antoine de Buitleir
26 December 1962



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