Drama At Inish
by Lennox Robinson
by Lennox Robinson
Drama at Inish is about a touring theatre company that raises the intellectual tone of a small Irish village through serious drama, leading to devastating consequences for the locals.
About The Play
About The Play
Unseen in London for 60 years, the classic 1933 Irish comedy by Lennox Robinson, the former manager of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and the first director of Mixed Marriage, and starring Olivier Award winner Celia Imrie.
Drama at Inish (also known as Is Life Worth Living?) is the tale of a touring theatre company who come to the small Irish village of Inish to raise the intellectual tone higher than the usual ‘summer comicalities’. Instead they perform ‘serious’ drama: the works of Chekhov, Strindberg and Ibsen – with devastating consequences for the local inhabitants…
This production is another Finborough Theatre rediscovery, following in the footsteps of such sell-out successes as J.M. Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows and Quality Street, Graham Greene’s The Potting Shed and Emlyn Williams’ Accolade. Drama at Inish complements our main run of another Irish rediscovery – the first London production in 90 years of St John Ervine’s Mixed Marriage – the original production of Mixed Marriage at the Abbey Theatre in 1911 was directed by Lennox Robinson.