tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64343106882037073962024-02-19T01:45:49.824-08:00The Abbey Years (1954-62)TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-31925550636138736912013-08-08T07:42:00.000-07:002014-07-05T06:41:28.839-07:00KNOCKING AT THE ABBEY DOOR<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Following his departure from the bank, when TP bravely struck out </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">on his mission to become a professional actor, he made the </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">most of the friendships he'd found when cosying up to the city's </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">actors in their favoured watering </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">holes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He had also become friendly with Godfrey Quigley who invited him to join the Globe Theatre Company which resided in a mini-theatre (not much bigger than The Pike) above the Gas Company showrooms in Dun Laoighaire; and he </span><span style="font-size: large;">had also made his radio debut in the famous sponsored drama, </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">The Kennedys of Castleross</span>, </i><span style="font-size: large;"> also directed by Quiqley.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, financially, TP's great dream was full of holes, especially as the </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Globe</span> </i><span style="font-size: large;">was run on a profit-share basis based on lean box-office takings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">All in all, a year after having quit the bank he was bringing in no more than a quarter of his previous salary. "I was down to two pounds a week which was exactly my rent, so I had nothing to eat and I couldn't approach people at home for money," <i>TP</i> would recall.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was at this stage that our hero conspired to get himself into the Abbey Theatre Company </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Ireland's national theatre) and calling on his family's political connections he gained an <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I made a 'b' line for the Abbey and I used my political connections because I had an uncle who had been in the first government and I went to see Richard Mulchahy [Dail Minister] who knew my uncle and, one way or another, I got an interview with Blythe."</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blythe's first verdict was not encouraging: "Aghh! Your Irish is bloody awful [Abbey players were required to be fluent speakers of gaelic] ... and your nose is a bit too long!" But then he cast </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">TP</i><span style="font-size: large;"> a glimmer of hope, "I suppose we could take you on for the Christmas show and see how you get on."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I was lying in the flat thinking 'oh God, what now?' when the phone rang and the landlady called out and said, 'you're wanted on the phone'. It was Sean Mooney, the stage manager at the Abbey. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That night, after the briefest walk-through of the part, TP went on for the missing actor and the start of what would be a eight-year stay with the Abbey Theatre.</span></div>
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-8085623095297167852013-08-02T03:00:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:30:46.561-07:00THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS by Sean O'Casey (1955)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-24364432459682719812013-08-02T00:30:00.000-07:002013-08-09T05:01:38.532-07:00THE BIG BIRTHDAY by Hugh Leonard (1956)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-33529032729903789642013-08-02T00:00:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:37:52.946-07:00STRANGE OCCURANCE ON IRELAND'S EYE by Dennis Johnston (1956)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-46084122958069254412013-08-01T03:37:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:27:16.012-07:00THE LESS WE ARE TOGETHER by John O'Donovan (1957)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-64158148845555295312013-08-01T03:35:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:27:37.286-07:00WAITING NIGHT by P.S. Laughlin (1957)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-41375110121731094072013-08-01T03:33:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:28:11.770-07:00THE WANTON TIDE by Niall Carroll (1957)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-60459834440394355052013-08-01T02:45:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:34:54.719-07:00MUIREANN AGUS AN PRIONNSA by Michael O'hAodh (1957)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-30499170963551610482013-07-31T03:31:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:26:51.223-07:00A CHANGE OF MIND by John O'Donovan (1958)<br />
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<br />TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-51410797083919361272013-07-31T02:45:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:41:11.450-07:00THE RISEN PEOPLE by James Plunkett (1958)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-37401015172407668452013-07-31T02:44:00.000-07:002013-08-09T05:02:55.351-07:00THE SCYTHE AND THE SUNSET by Dennis Johnston (1958)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-38676782786056948912013-07-31T02:43:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:46:07.105-07:00SEVEN MEN AND A DOG by NIall Sheridan (1958)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-69286489113649354632013-07-30T02:42:00.001-07:002013-08-09T04:52:58.514-07:00LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill (1959)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-36009899551990544462013-07-30T02:42:00.000-07:002013-08-08T16:16:13.465-07:00I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING by John McCann (1959)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-49502329709384605612013-07-29T02:42:00.001-07:002013-08-08T16:18:06.225-07:00ANYONE COULD ROB A BANK by Thomas Coffey (1960)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-75286033727329979382013-07-29T02:42:00.000-07:002013-08-08T16:17:43.951-07:00GIVE ME A BED OF ROSES by John McCann (1960)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TPEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15985180562813399991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434310688203707396.post-71802193196355476632013-07-28T03:32:00.000-07:002013-08-02T10:28:36.295-07:00THE LONG SORROW by Thomas Coffey (1961)<br />
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