A compilation of the year's productions at the Abbey Theatre.
Opening nights at the National Theatre:
JANUARY
Abbey: Aristocrats, by Brian Friel; Festen (Teatr Rozmaitosci, Warsaw) Peacock: The Wolf of Winter (children's theatre), by Paula Meehan; Finders Keepers, by Peter Sheridan
FEBRUARY
Abbey: The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov, in a version by Tom Murphy
MARCH
Abbey: Dance in Time (Vigszínház, Budapest); The Burial at Thebes, by Seamus Heaney
Peacock: Defender of the Faith, by Stuart Carolan
MAY
Abbey: International Dance Festival; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mladinkso Theatre, Ljubljana); The Shaughraun, by Dion Boucicault
Peacock: Savoy, by Eugene O'Brien
JUNE
Peacock: Heavenly Bodies, by Stewart Parker
AUGUST
Abbey: The Playboy of the Western World, by J.M. Synge
Peacock: Beauty in a Broken Place, by Colm Tóibín
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER (Dublin Theatre Festival)
Abbey: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, by Frank McGuinness; I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell, by Bernard Farrell
Peacock: Riders to the Sea, by J.M. Synge/ The Dandy Dolls, by George Fitzmaurice/ Purgatory, by W.B. Yeats/ Portia Coughlan, by Marina Carr
DECEMBER
Abbey: The Shaughraun, by Dion Boucicault
Peacock: With Paul Mercier's Smokescreen postponed, the Peacock stage is currently dark
