The Abbey is a place for artists and audiences to come together. With tickets starting at 13 euro and early bird tickets and free previews, our Arts Council funding helps us maintain affordable ticket prices. Our New Work department invites ideas and scripts from theatre-makers at all career stages. We are dedicated to celebrating the vibrant and diverse voices and experiences that exist all over Ireland. We are inspired by their legacy to explore new narratives and horizons for Irish theatre. They invented a new theatrical tradition in Ireland. Our theatre was founded by revolutionaries, W.B.

In our programme you will find new Irish writing, modern classics, adaptations, new versions of classic Irish plays, verbatim theatre, dance and the best of Irish and international theatre, presented in partnership with a growing community of theatre-makers and companies. We tour in Ireland and internationally to bring the best of Irish theatre to as many people as we can. We stage over thirty plays at our home in Dublin City Centre each year.

We tell their story through ambitious, courageous and new theatre in all it’s forms. Recent staged new productions include Atiha Sen Gupta’s Counting Stars, Kirsten Childs’ The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Bonnie Greer’s The Hotel Cerise and the Ramps On The Moon production of The Who’s Tommy directed by our Artistic Director Kerry Michael.Ġ20 8534 0310 Mon-Sat, /theatreroyalstratfordeast A prolific developer of new work, this award-winning theatre attracts artists and audiences often not represented in other venues and is firmly committed to supporting the development of exciting new voices and bold new work.Īs part of this, the venue’s bi-annual Angelic Tales New Writing Festival features rehearsed readings by more than twenty emerging writers and has led to work being developed into full main stage productions and for the last ten years has developed hundreds of new writers of contemporary musical theatre. This famous producing theatre, located in the heart of London’s East End prides itself on creating world class work that reflects the concerns, hopes and dreams of its community. Sound Designer: Alexandra Faye BraithwaiteĪn early workshop of Room was developed withĬhicago Shakespeare Theater and Richard Jordan Productions.

Music and Lyrics by: Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph Room premiered at Theatre Royal Stratford East on before performing at Dundee Rep Theatre (13 – 17 June 2017) and the Abbey Theatre Dublin (24 June – 22 July 2017) with the following cast (in alphabetical order):

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