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The Arts Council Playography Na Gaeilge

Venues

Focus Theatre

OVERVIEW

    Address

    6 Pembroke Place, Off Pembroke Street, Dublin 2

    Artistic Director

    Joe Devlin

  • Programming Policy

    PLEASE NOTE: THIS VENUE IS NO LONGER IN OPERATION. The Focus Theatre opened its door on 29 September 1967 with the production of Play with a Tiger by Doris Lessing. This 72-seater theatre was a dream realised for the late Deirdre O’Connell who had founded the Stanislavski Studio of Dublin four years earlier in May 1963. For the next 40 years, the Focus Theatre and Stanislavski Studio produced over 250 plays by internationally famous playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jean Paul Sartre, and Henrik Ibsen, and trained many famous actors and directors, thus becoming an important part of late-20th-century Irish theatre history. The theatre closed in April 2012 due to funding issues.

  • Resident Company

    Focus Theatre

Adaptations/Translations

Play Title Adapter/Translator
Alice In Wonderland Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Lewis Carroll
An adaptation of the original novel by Lewis Carroll.
Legends Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy William Butler Yeats
Adapted from 'Tadgh O Cathan and the Corpse' by W.B. Yeats, literally translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde and from 'The Legend of Knockgrafton' by T. Crofton Croker.
Stop the Tempo Paul Meade Gianina Carbunariu
Teacht is Imeacht Gabriel Rosenstock Samuel Beckett
Aistriúchán ar 'Come and Go' (1965)