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I had wanted to present a season of his [O’Casey’s] work in London, and was already in touch with the playwright at his house in Torquay, when plans for the first World Theatre Season began to take shape. I decided to bring to my first World Theatre Season the Abbey Theatre playing O’Casey, and for this purpose I determined to repair the breach between Ireland’s national theatre and one of its finest playwrights.
My World of Theatre (London: Jonathan Cape, 1971) pp. 286–8. Editor’s title.
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Peter Daubeny, CBE (1921- ), English actor and producer. In 1964, he became Artistic Director of the World Theatre Season; and, in 1966, a Consultant Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Volume I of his autobiography, Stage by Stage (London: Jonathan Cape) appeared in 1952.
See Robert Hogan, ‘O’Casey and the Archbishop’, New Republic , 138 (19 May 1958) 29–30;
Sean O’Casey, ‘Abbey Can’t Have My Plays’, Sunday Press (Dublin), 27 July 1958, p.1 (interview).
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Daubeny, P. (1988). The Abbey Theatre in London. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_49
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