The Abbey Theatre is the national theatre of Ireland located in Dublin city centre. The Abbey Theatre’s mission is to create a world-class theatre that actively engages with and reflects Irish society: we place the writer and the theatre artist at the heart of the Ireland’s national theatre.

The Abbey Theatre is the cradle of the Irish literary movement and has produced some of the most significant and crucial plays of the 20th Century. It is vital that this continues into the 21st Century and that the rich seam of the oral tradition is inherited by future generations.