Nationalism & Cosmopolitanism: A Study of the Abbey and the Gate Theatre, 1926-30
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2016-08-05
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Two theatres in Dublin, the Abbey, created after a merger in 1904, and the Gate Theatre, founded in 1928, have aimed, from their inception, to perform avant-gardes plays. In scholarship, the Abbey Theatre is generally regarded as a national theatre that performed nationalistically themed, pastoral plays, especially in its early decades. By contrast, the Gate Theatre, in its early years, has often been regarded as mainly a stage for experimental, avant-garde and cosmopolitan theatre.
The aim of this thesis is to question these assumptions, which have defined the Abbey and the Gate Theatres as playhouses with diametrically opposed agendas. Both theatres will be compared and contrasted on three aspects: their manifestoes, two plays that were produced by each theatre, and their use of stage design. In order to contrast both theatres most effectively and objectively, this thesis will specifically look at plays and stage design from the late 1920s.
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