The Abbey Theatre Dublin
In the early 1970s, at the age of 26, he became one of the few English theatre practitioners to become a resident Director at the Abbey Theatre Dublin. While there, his productions included Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy of manners The School for Scandal, the witty Shavian drama, King Herod Advises by Conor Cruise O'Brien, the premiere of Hatchet, a play about violence in working class Dublin by Heno Magee, and Irish premieres of continental writers Fernando Arrabal and Michel De Ghelderode.
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