Nadine O'Regan: Shabby Abbey?
The national theatre’s treatment of female playwrights is deeply paternalistic and arrogant
Not good enough. Not worthy of admiration. Not ready to be performed on the Abbey stage. But hey: “them’s the breaks”, right?
That was the message Fiach Mac Conghail, director of the Abbey Theatre, delivered to women in recent days, when he announced that his forthcoming programme commemorating the 1916 centenary would contain almost no works by female playwrights.
In a programme of ten playwrights for his Waking the Nation centenary series at ...
