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Lennox Robinson

LENNOX ROBINSON  (1886 - 1958)

 Nationality:    Irish
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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.

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=9692

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         All's Over, Then?         Big House, The         Bird's Nest         Church Street         Clancy Name, The         Crabbed Youth and Age         Cross Roads, The         Drama At Inish         Dreamers, The         Ever the Twain         Far Off Hills, The         Forget-Me-Not         Give a Dog. . .         Harvest         Is Life Worth Living?         Killycreggs in Twilight         Lesson of his Life, The         Let Well Alone         Lost Leader, The         Lucky Finger, The         Never the Time and the Place         Patriots         Portrait         Roly Poly         Round Table, The         When Lovely Woman         White Blackbird, The         Whiteheaded Boy

All's Over, Then?

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in More Plays, Macmillan and Co., London, 1933   -

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three act play

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Big House, The

Big House, The
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Macmillan and Co., London, 1928
Selected plays of Lennox Robinson, Colin Smythe Limited, 1982   978-0-86140-087-9

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Genre:
four scene satire

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bird's Nest

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three act play

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Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Church Street

Church Street
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in More Plays, Macmillan and Co., London, 1933
Selected plays of Lennox Robinson, Colin Smythe Limited, 1982   978-0-86140-087-9

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Genre:
one act play

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Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Clancy Name, The

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in Two Plays: Harvest and the Clancy Name, Maunsel, Dublin, 1911   -

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Genre:
one act tragedy

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Crabbed Youth and Age

Crabbed Youth and Age
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Putnam, G.P., London, 1924
Selected plays of Lennox Robinson, Colin Smythe Limited, 1982   978-0-86140-087-9

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Genre:
one act comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cross Roads, The

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Maunsel, Dublin, 1909   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Drama At Inish

Drama At Inish
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.

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Genre:
An exaggeration in Three Acts

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wearing - the London Stage 53.273

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Dreamers, The

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Maunsel, Dublin and London, 1915   -

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Genre:
three act play

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Male:  27            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Ever the Twain

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Genre:
three act comedy

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Male:  13            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Far Off Hills, The

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Marian has decided that once she has fulfilled family obligations she will enter a convent. then she meets a melancholy young man

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Chatto and Windus, London, 1931   978-0900343109

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Genre:
three act comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Forget-Me-Not

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three act play

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Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Give a Dog. . .

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Macmillan and Co., London, 1928   -

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Harvest

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in Two Plays: Harvest and the Clancy Name, Maunsel, Dublin, 1911   -

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three act play

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Is Life Worth Living?

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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
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aka Drama At Inish

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USA    1933

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Macmillan and Co., London, 1933   -

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Comedy

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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National Library of Scotland ref: Gateway - Acc.5086/34

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Killycreggs in Twilight

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Macmillan and Co., London, 1939   -

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Genre:
three act play

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Lesson of his Life, The

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An Dun, Cork    1911

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Cork Dramatic Company (1909 - 1913)

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Let Well Alone

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in the Bell, Dublin, January 1941, pp 54-67   -

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Lost Leader, The

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the Eigeas Press, Dublin, 1918   -

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Genre:
three act play

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Male:  10            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lucky Finger, The

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Samuel French, NY, 1949   -

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Genre:
three act comedy

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Male:  12            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Never the Time and the Place

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in Two One Act Comedies, H R Carter Publications, Belfast, 1953   -

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Genre:
one act comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Patriots

Patriots
An ageing Fenian in County Cork

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Maunsel, Dublin, 1912
Selected plays of Lennox Robinson, Colin Smythe Limited, 1982   978-0-86140-087-9

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Genre:
three act play

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Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Portrait

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Talbot press, Dublin and Cork, 1926   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Roly Poly

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adapted from Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif".

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Genre:
12 scene comedy

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Male:  13            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Round Table, The

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Putnam, G.P., London, 1924   -

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Genre:
three act comic tragedy

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Male:  8            Female:  9            Other:  -

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When Lovely Woman

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Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

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Genre:
full length comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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White Blackbird, The

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Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1926   -

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Genre:
three act play

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Whiteheaded Boy

Whiteheaded Boy
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.

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Genre:
three act comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Vol XVIII (1998) Page 0926

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