New Abbey Theatre board is named

A NEW board of the overhauled Abbey Theatre was announced yesterday by Arts Minister John O’Donoghue, in a move aimed at putting expertise in place to better manage the troubled national theatre.

The board has 10 members, apart from the chairman, Circuit Court Judge Bryan McMahon, who was appointed by Mr O’Donoghue and who is from Listowel, in the minister’s native Co Kerry.

In what is a board of wide-ranging expertise, the theatre community is represented by actors Olwyn Fouéré and Tom Hickey, playwright Eugene O’Brien, theatre director Lynne Parker and Abbey stage manager John Stapleton, who represents the Abbey staff.