Chapter XVII: Appendix: IV

DATES AND PLACES OF THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF NEW PLAYS PRODUCED BY THE NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY AND ITS PREDECESSORS:—

1899.

IRISH LITERARY THEATRE AT ANTIENT CONCERT ROOMS.

May 8th. _The Countess Cathleen_, by W. B. Yeats.

May 9th. _The Heather Field_, by Edward Martyn.

1900.

IRISH LITERARY THEATRE AT THE GAIETY THEATRE.

{_The Last Feast of the Fianna_, by Alice Milligan.
Feb. 19th. {
{_Maeve_, by Edward Martyn.

Feb. 20th. _The Bending of the Bough_, by George Moore.

1901.

Oct. 21st. _Diarmuid and Grania_, by W. B. Yeats and George
Moore.
_The Twisting of the Rope_, by Douglas Hyde (first
Gaelic play produced in a theatre).

1902.

MR. W. G. FAY’S IRISH NATIONAL DRAMATIC COMPANY AT ST. TERESA’S HALL, CLARENDON STREET.

{_Deirdre_, by ‘A.E.’
April 2nd. {
{_Cathleen ni Houlihan_, by W. B. Yeats.

IRISH NATIONAL DRAMATIC COMPANY AT ANTIENT CONCERT ROOMS.

{_The Sleep of the King_, by Seumas O’Cuisin.
Oct. 29th. {
{_The Laying of the Foundations_, by Fred Ryan.

Oct. 30th. _A Pot of Broth_, by W. B. Yeats.

Oct. 31st. _The Racing Lug_, by Seumas O’Cuisin.

1903.

IRISH NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY, MOLESWORTH HALL.

{_The Hour-Glass_, by W. B. Yeats.
March 14th. {
{_Twenty-five_, by Lady Gregory.

{_The King’s Threshold_, by W. B. Yeats.
Oct. 8th. {
{_In the Shadow of the Glen_, by J. M. Synge.

Dec. 3rd. _Broken Soil_, by P. Colm.

1904.

{_The Shadowy Waters_, by W. B. Yeats.
Jan. 14th. {
{_The Townland of Tamney_, by Seumas MacManus.

Feb. 25th. _Riders to the Sea_, by J. M. Synge.

IRISH NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY AT THE ABBEY THEATRE.

{_On Baile’s Strand_, by W. B. Yeats.
Dec. 27th. {
{_Spreading the News_, by Lady Gregory.

1905.

Feb. 4th. _The Well of the Saints_, by J. M. Synge.

March 25th. _Kincora_, by Lady Gregory.

April 25th. _The Building Fund_, by William Boyle.

June 9th. _The Land_, by P. Colm.

NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY, LTD.

Dec. 9th. _The White Cockade_, by Lady Gregory.

1906.

Jan. 20th. _The Eloquent Dempsey_, by William Boyle.

Feb. 19th. _Hyacinth Halvey_, by Lady Gregory.

{_The Gaol Gate_, by Lady Gregory.
Oct. 20th. {
{_The Mineral Workers_, by William Boyle.

Nov. 24th. _Deirdre_, by W. B. Yeats.

{_The Shadowy Waters_ (new version), by W. B. Yeats.
Dec. 8th. {
{_The Canavans_, by Lady Gregory.

1907.

Jan. 26th. _The Playboy of the Western World_, by J. M. Synge.

Feb. 23rd. _The Jackdaw_, by Lady Gregory.

March 9th. _Rising of the Moon_, by Lady Gregory.

April 1st. _The Eyes of the Blind_, by Miss W. M. Letts.

April 3rd. _The Poorhouse_, by Lady Gregory and Douglas Hyde.

April 27th. _Fand_, by Wilfred Scawen Blunt.

Oct. 3rd. _The Country Dressmaker_, by George Fitzmaurice.

{_Dervorgilla_, by Lady Gregory.
Oct. 31st. {
{_The Canavans_ (new version), by Lady Gregory.

Nov. 21st. _The Unicorn from the Stars_, by Lady Gregory and
W. B. Yeats.

1908.

{_The Man who Missed the Tide_, by W. F. Casey.
Feb. 15th. {
{_The Piper_, by Norreys Connell.

{_The Pie-dish_, by George Fitzmaurice.
March 19th. {
{_The Golden Helmet_, by W. B. Yeats.

April 20th. _The Workhouse Ward_, by Lady Gregory.

In addition to these plays, many of which are
constantly revived, translations of foreign
masterpieces are given occasionally.

It was not until the opening of the Abbey Theatre that
Lady Gregory, Mr. J. M. Synge, and Mr. W. B. Yeats
became entirely responsible for the selection of plays,
though they had been mainly so from 1903.

_Corrigenda._—P. 120, l. 5, for ‘severe’ read
‘serious’; p. 143, l. 4, for ‘prepared’ read
‘performed’; p. 176, l. 29, for ‘_their_ own day’ read
‘_our_ own day.’

_Printed by A. H. BULLEN, at The Shakespeare Head Press,
Stratford-on-Avon._

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 22, “aoor” changed to “door” (through the kitchen door)

Page 177, “monotous” changed to “monotonous” (monotonous to an ear)

Page 202, “A’Kempis” changed to “à Kempis” (wrote S. Thomas à Kempis)