Abbey Theatre to go dark until autumn after its next play ends

will be dark in August, with no in-house productions between late July and the opening of its Dublin Theatre Festival shows, in late September.

This means that after the national theatre’s early-summer production of Elizabeth Kuti’s The Sugar Wife, which opens next week and runs until July 20th, with a cast of five that includes the Dry star, it will have no in-house productions until the autumn. There may be one-off events in August, and the Abbey is likely to host outside productions as part ofWithin theatre circles, the Abbey had been expected to produce The Boy, a new play by Marina Carr, for this year’s theatre festival.

I Am Not an Alcoholic: ‘I would like a non-alcoholic Guinness,’ says the man. ‘Do you want a colouring book and crayons as well?’The gap between the Abbey’s summer and early-autumn plays appears longer than is usual at the theatre. There is some speculation that financial issues play a part in this scheduling decision., Dublin’s other main State-funded theatre, is a new production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, which opens on July 17th and runs until September 21st.

The investigation dates to events in 2019-20, before the appointment of the Abbey’s current codirectors, in 2021. The economist Dr Frances Ruane has chaired the theatre since 2017; her term finishes at the end of next month.

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