Débutant playwright eyeing 10-year sabbatical

As a long-awaited début play opens tonight at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, its award winning writer begs for a 10-year break.

Débutant playwright eyeing 10-year sabbatical

As a long-awaited début play opens tonight at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, its award winning writer begs for a 10-year break.

Beauty in a Broken Place, by Colm Tóibín, recalls the infamous riots around the first productions of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars at the theatre in 1926.

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