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LENNOX ROBINSON (1886 - 1958) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Abbey Theatre Archive |
Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson (4 October 1886 - 15 October 1958) was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre.
Plays by Lennox Robinson
All's Over, Then? | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Jul 1932 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in More Plays, Macmillan and Co., London, 1933 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135159 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Big House, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Sep 1926 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan and Co., London, 1928 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86140-087-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135108 | |||
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Genre: | four scene satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bird's Nest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Sep 1938 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135097 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Church Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 May 1934 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in More Plays, Macmillan and Co., London, 1933 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86140-087-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135098 | |||
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Genre: | one act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clancy Name, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Oct 1908 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Two Plays: Harvest and The Clancy Name, Maunsel, Dublin, 1911 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135109 | |||
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Genre: | one act tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crabbed Youth and Age | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Nov 1922 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Putnam, G.P., London, 1924 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86140-087-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135099 | |||
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Genre: | one act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cross Roads, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Apr 1909 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Maunsel, Dublin, 1909 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135110 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Drama At Inish | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Feb 1933 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Selected plays of Lennox Robinson, Colin Smythe Limited, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86140-087-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45178 | |||
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Genre: | An exaggeration in Three Acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The play is set in Inish, a small Irish seaside resort town, in the early 1930s. The dull routine of the town is plunged into chaos by the arrival of a repertory company led by the De la Meres, a husband and wife team of actor-managers, who have been contracted to take over the local theatre for a season. They plan to put on plays by Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg to improve the minds of the townspeople. Surprisingly, the plays prove to be a success, and the theatre is constantly sold out. This appears to validate the De La Meres in their view that given the opportunity to see great art ordinary people will respond. This burst of success comes after many years of struggle for the company who have been travelling from one small town to another, and revives their hopes of one day performing in Dublin or London. Their affected manners and programme of intellectual plays, however, gradually irritate their hosts in the hotel where they are staying. Around the town, meanwhile, acts of criminality and passion break out in the previously sleepy area all of which are in some way connected with the theatre. The spate of strange behaviour even draws the attention of journalists from Dublin who are after the secret of the disturbances without realising the theatre is the cause of them. The series of strange occurrences climaxes in the local TD voting against the government, and triggering its collapse, after being inspired by An Enemy of the People. This proves the last straw and the actors are asked to leave by the hotel owners. The play ends with a circus being engaged to replace the actors for the remainder of the season. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 53.273 | |||||
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Dreamers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Feb 1915 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Maunsel, Dublin and London, 1915 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135111 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 27 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ever the Twain | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Oct 1929 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan and Co., London, 1930 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135100 | |||
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Genre: | three act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Far Off Hills, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Oct 1928 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Chatto and Windus, London, 1931 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0900343109 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29777 | |||
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Genre: | three act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Marian has decided that once she has fulfilled family obligations she will enter a convent. Then she meets a melancholy young man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Forget-Me-Not | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Dec 1941 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135101 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Give a Dog. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan and Co., London, 1928 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135523 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harvest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 May 1910 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Two Plays: Harvest and The Clancy Name, Maunsel, Dublin, 1911 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135102 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Is Life Worth Living? | ||
| 1st Produced: | USA | 1933 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan and Co., London, 1933 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102314 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Drama at Inish | |||||
Synopsis: | Legit repertory troupe comes to a small village in Ireland and, after a week or so of Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg the town is off its nut'. That's howVariety described Lennox Robinson's comedy when it played London in 1933 and that, in a nutshell, is the story of this gloriously goofy play that imagines the impact a steady diet of serious drama might have on the amiable residents of the seaside town of Inish. The fun begins when the town elders decide to improve the tone of the place. Enter Hector de la Mare and his wife Constance Constantia of the De La Mare Repertory company-committed exclusively to 'psychological and introspective drama: the great plays of Russia, an Ibsen or two, a little Strindberg; because', as Hector puts it, 'they may revolutionize some person's soul'. Whether or not the souls of Inish require revolution is the question this comedy poses while delightfully exaggerating and celebrating the transformative power of the theater | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Gateway - Acc.5086/34 | |||||
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Killycreggs in Twilight | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Apr 1937 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan and Co., London, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135103 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lesson of his Life, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | An Dun, Cork | 1911 | ||||
Company: | Cork Dramatic Company (1909 - 1913) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135112 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Let Well Alone | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Bell, Dublin, January 1941, pp 54-67 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135524 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Leader, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Feb 1918 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Eigeas Press, Dublin, 1918 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135113 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucky Finger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1948 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135114 | |||
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Genre: | three act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Never the Time and the Place | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Feb 1924 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Two One Act Comedies, H R Carter Publications, Belfast, 1953 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135104 | |||
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Genre: | one act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Patriots | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Apr 1912 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Maunsel, Dublin, 1912 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86140-087-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135105 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| An ageing Fenian in County Cork | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Portrait | ||
| 1st Produced: | 31 Mar 1925 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talbot press, Dublin and Cork, 1926 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135106 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roly Poly | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Nov 1940 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135107 | |||
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Genre: | 12 scene comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif". | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Round Table, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 31 Jan 1922 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Putnam, G.P., London, 1924 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135115 | |||
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Genre: | three act comic tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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When Lovely Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Aug 1936 | |||||
Company: | Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135117 | |||
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Genre: | full length comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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White Blackbird, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Oct 1925 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1926 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135116 | |||
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Genre: | three act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Whiteheaded Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Dec 1916 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talbot Press, Dublin, 1920 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42725 | |||
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Genre: | three act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Exploration of small town Irish attitudes (around 1916). A family's youngest son is adored by his mother and whilst his brothers languish in rural oblivion he is sent to study in Dublin. But failure comes hard to the family and deportation seems the only answer. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XVIII (1998) Page 0926 | |||||
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