- Gate Theatre
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building_name=Gate Theatre
building_type=Theatre
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location=Dublin ,Ireland
completion_date=1928
opened = 1950s
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architect=Michael Scott
structural_engineer=|The Gate Theatre, inDublin , was founded in 1928 byHilton Edwards andMicheál MacLiammoir , initially using theAbbey Theatre 's Peacock studio theatre space to stage important works by European and American dramatists. The theatre later moved to 1 Cavendish Row (part of the Rotunda hospital complex) where leading Irish Architect Michael Scott undertook the revisions necessary to the room to convert it into a theatre.Edwards/McLiammoir Productions presented European plays in sharp contrast to the county kitchen fare available at the
Abbey Theatre bringing the Irish Premieres ofIbsen and other such dramatists to the Irish public.Orson Welles andJames Mason started their acting careers at The Gate.In December 1983 the directorship of the Gate was handed to Michael Colgan. In 1991 the Gate became the first theatre in history to launch a full retrospective of the nineteen stage plays of
Samuel Beckett . This festival was repeated at theBarbican Centre inLondon andNew York 'sLincoln Center .The Gate also featured three separate festivals of the works of
Harold Pinter , the first theatre in Europe to do such retrospectives.Trivia
As MacLiammoir and Edwards were lovers, and the Gate's main rival was the Celtophile
Abbey Theatre , it was commonly said that the Dublin theatre-going public had the choice of "Sodom and Begorrah".References
* [http://www.gate-theatre.ie/ Gate Theatre Web site]
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