Drama at the Abbey Theatre

The writer Jennifer Johnston once lamented that ‘no one seems to like my plays’.

She had a point. While better known for her novels, Ms Johnston is also the writer of six plays, yet not one of them has been chosen by the Abbey Theatre for its programme, Waking the Nation 2016, to mark 1916.

Of the 10 plays on the programme, only one was written by a woman — Ali White’s ‘monologue for children’ Me, Mollser.