Abbey pays €200k to playwright over dispute

The Abbey Theatre last night confirmed it has agreed to pay Nigerian playwright Bisi Adigun and his theatre company €200,000 for copyright infringement.

On Wednesday, Mr Adigun and Arambe Productions reached an out-of-court settlement with the Abbey, novelist Roddy Doyle, and director Jimmy Fay over the production of a new version of The Playboy of the Western World.

The financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the High Court.