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Playbill of the Irish Theatre in Harwicke Street (May 1915) for Iosogan / The Master. A Miracle Play by P.H. Pearse “During the interval Mr. Pearse will deliver a short address on the Irish Style of Dramatic Speaking. The address will be illustrated…

Playbill of the Irish Theatre in Harwicke Street (June-July 1915) for Uncle Vanya Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Tchekoff. The play was performed in Hardwicke Street for six nights from 28 June to 4 July 1915. Checkov along with…

Playbill of the Irish Theatre in Harwicke Street (April 1915) for: Pagans by Thomas MacDonagh; The Walls of Athens by Eimar O’Duffy. Both plays were produced for the first time in 1915. Pagans will only be published in book form in 1920, whereas…

Thomas MacDonagh's Third Play, Pagans (1915)Pagans is Thomas MacDonagh’s third play after When the Dawn Has Come (1908) and Metempsychosis (1912) and was first produced in April 1915 by the Irish Theatre in Hardwicke Street for a run of six nights.…

Thomas MacDonagh's second play Metempsychosis (1912)First printed in The Irish Review, the play is a satire of theosophy and occultism. It was first performed on 18,19, 20 April 1912 by the Theatre of Ireland, a company formed in 1906 from a number…

The inaugural play of the Irish Theatre, Edward Martyn's The Dream Physician (1914). The Dream Physician was the inaugural play of the Irish Theatre a new dramatic venture set up in 1914 by Martyn, Thomas MacDonagh, and Joseph Plunkett and ‘conceived…