{"title":"Directing Bernard Shaw at the Abbey Theatre: Interview with Annabelle Comyn","authors":"B. Houlihan","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.2.0265","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Annabelle Comyn is an award-winning director and is artistic director of Hatch Productions. Comyn directed two major productions of works by George Bernard Shaw at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Pygmalion (2011) and Major Barbara (2013). In this interview, Comyn discusses her experiences of directing Shaw's plays at the Abbey and in working with cast members on the various aspects of bringing Shaw's plays to the stage, as well as the legacy of Shaw in Irish theater today.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"265 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0265","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:Annabelle Comyn is an award-winning director and is artistic director of Hatch Productions. Comyn directed two major productions of works by George Bernard Shaw at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Pygmalion (2011) and Major Barbara (2013). In this interview, Comyn discusses her experiences of directing Shaw's plays at the Abbey and in working with cast members on the various aspects of bringing Shaw's plays to the stage, as well as the legacy of Shaw in Irish theater today.