Box office hits help Abbey return to profit

Box offices successes including George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara and Frank McGuiness’s dramatisation of The Dead by James Joyce at the Abbey Theatre are expected to contribute to the theatre producing a profit of €250,000 this year.

The national theatre returning to profit in 2013 follows two years of operating losses at the Abbey.

New accounts filed by Abbey Theatre Amharclann na Mainistreach with the Companies Office for 2012 show that the theatre company’s operating losses increased more than threefold to €1.4m last year.