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Warm, engaging, intelligent and witty, this vivid narrative, first published in 1946, describes the struggles and triumphs of the Gate's early years, when MacLiammoir and Edwards brought international theatre to Dublin audiences with a series of innovative and experimental productions and designs directed with extraordinary panache.
About the author
MICHEAL MACLIAMMOIR (1899-1978), artist, actor, designer, author andproducer, founded the Gate Theatre, along with his partner Hilton Edwards, in October 1928. He wrote several stage adaptations as well as thirteen plays. Amoung them are Diarmuid agus Grainne (1928), Where Stars Walk (1940), Ill Met by Moonlight (1946), Home For Christmas (1950) and Prelude in Kazbek Street (1973). His books include All For Hecuba: An Irish Theatrical Autobiography (1946), Put Money In Thy Purse; A Diary of the Filming of Othello (1952), Aisteoiri Faoi Dha Shoals - Dialann Mheanmhara (1956) later translated and published as Each Actor on His Ass (1960), and Enter a Goldfish: Memoirs of an Irish Actor Young and Old (1977). His one-man dramatic monologues, The Importance of Being Oscar (1960), I Must Be Talking to My Friends (1963) and Talking About Yeats (1965), brought him worldwide renown as they toured to the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, America and South America.
