Sara Allgood''s Memories - Untold Stories of the Abbey Theatre and Early Hollywood

Sara Allgood's Memories lets the reader see, feel, and hear what life was like both backstage and onstage at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in the nineteenth-century. It also details Allgood's move to Hollywood to pursue a career in film as she worked with the then new director Alfred Hitchcock.

List of contents

• Introduction: Sara Allgood's Memories: Untold Stories of the Abbey Theatre and Early Hollywood


• 1: Early Life Part One


• 2: Early Life Part Two


• 3: 1905-1907


• 4: The Playboy, 1907


• 5: Abbey Personalities


• 6: The Years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911


• 7: 1914-1926


• 8: The 1930s and 1940s

About the author

Dr Brewer Redwine specializes in Global Irish and Anglophone Studies with a focus on performance, gender, and authorship. A lecturer in the English Department at Seton Hall University, her recent publications include a 2021 monograph with Oxford University Press, Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre, and an edited collection with Amrita Ghosh, Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning. In addition to the Sara Allgood Memories project, she is at work on a wide-ranging study of anticolonial performance entitled 'Acting Against Empire'.

Summary

Sara Allgood's Memories lets the reader see, feel, and hear what life was like both backstage and onstage at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in the nineteenth-century. It also details Allgood's move to Hollywood to pursue a career in film as she worked with the then new director Alfred Hitchcock.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2025
• EAN: 9780192867100
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286710-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Memoirs, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs