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VENUES

Eblana Theatre

OVERVIEW

    Address

    Busaras, Dublin 1

  • Programming Policy

    THIS VENUE IS NO LONGER IN OPERATION. Situated in Busaras, the Eblana Theatre opened in 1959 during the Dublin Theatre Festival. The theatre was host to many festival productions and to the work of numerous independent theatre companies, before it closed in the early 1990s.

NEW IRISH PLAYS PRODUCED AT EBLANA THEATRE

Play Title Playwright
A Borderline Case Harry Barton
A Singular Man J.P. Donleavy
A Tale After School James Douglas
All Gods Die on Friday Michael McDonnell
Bonfire Joe O'Donnell
Cop-Out David Hayes(1)
Crooked in the Car Seat Brian Lynch
Doesn't Anyone Remember Murphy John Quinn(3)
Give the Lady What She Wants Paschal Finnan
Mourn the Ivy Leaf G.P. Gallivan
Mr Joyce is leaving Paris Tom Gallacher
Nora Barnacle Maureen Charlton
Not With A Bang Kevin Casey
Our Jane Michael Skelly
Part of the Main Grace Butt
Partly Furnished Barry L Hillman
Please Break the Glass Gently Michael Judge
Pull Down a Horseman Eugene McCabe
Revival! Tom Gallacher
The Blind Mice Brian Friel
The Crying Room Patrick Gilligan
The Dosshouse Waltz Aodhán Madden
The Giant Lobelia Harry Barton
The Last of the Hair-Oil Lovers Leonie Cruise Vincent Smith
The Noon-Day Devil Maurice Davin-Power
The Private Death of a Queen Aodhán Madden
The Saturday Night Women Michael Judge
The Savages James Douglas
Them Tom Coffey
Watershed G.P. Gallivan
Yesterday's Lovers Hugh Carr

ADAPTATIONS/TRANSLATIONS

Play Title Playwright
Goodbye to the Hill Lee Dunne
Adapted from the author's own novel of the same name.
On Trial Máiréad Ní Ghráda
Translated from the Irish by the author
The Matchmaker John B. Keane John B. Keane
Assembled by Ray McAnally and Barry Cassin from 'Letters Of A Matchmaker'(1975)