By Joseph, And Hogan, Robert Goode, Ed., And O'Neill, Michael J., Ed Holloway
Until his loss of life in 1944, Holloway attended virtually each functionality of the Abbey Theatre and day-by-day recorded in his magazine his reactions to performs and avid gamers and his reviews approximately and conversations with literary and theatrical humans. From the journal’s 221 cumbersome volumes, housed within the nationwide Library of eire, Mr. Hogan and Mr. O’Neill have compiled this e-book of extracts from the nearly 25,000,000 phrases written by way of the Irishman. The years from 1899 to 1926 have been selected simply because they're commonly thought of to be the major ones for the Abbey Theatre: the 12 months of its founding to the creation of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the celebrities, which triggered a revolt within the theatre. Mr. Holloway attended each play in the course of those years, in addition to many rehearsals, and talked with approximately all people who had whatever to do with the theatre. This magazine displays the tensions, feuds, and soreness that produced one of many nice theatres of recent times.
The meticulous exhibit of minute element makes Joseph Holloway’s Abbey Theatre vital examining for the coed of contemporary theatre, really considering the fact that its personality as an everyday account allows prepared checking of dates indexed in prior works in regards to the Irish nationwide Theatre.
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Yeats on that vigorous poet's work had got Davis' admirers' backs up some time ago . . • Their "poor spite" was completely frustrated by en~ thusiastic applause which drowned their empty-headed expressions of dissension. But enough of this, and let me record without further delay the gratifying success of the undertaking. Yeats's beautiful narrative poem in dramatic form, The Countess Cathleen, as the literary world knew for years past,. reads admirably, but that it would make a good actable playas well its performance to-night incontestably proved.
Mr. Yeats said little, to my mind, of any value, and retired dreamily without reference to the little stage perched on the impromptu table awaiting the explaining that never came. Shortly after, Mr. " for he got on the platform again and apologised for his completely forgetting to tell them about his little stage. " And so the audience passed it off with a laugh and settled down to witness Lady Gregory's play. I think the evening was the turning point in the career of the Irish :National Theatre Company, and has placed 24 JOSEPH HOLLOWAY'S ABBEY THEATRE them on the wave of success.
Ing that was thus spoiled, and the pity of its failure oppressed me. Many present laughed outright at the wealth of obscure imagery the characters indulged in, as they could not make head or tail out of it. " Oh, the pity of it, that such a precious thing should thus leave itself open to ridicule! Thursday, February 4. Mr. F. J. Fay returned me my paper on the Irish National Theatre Society, which I lent him on last Sunday, with a letter full of interesting matter by post. Tne letter is worth transcribing, so here goes.