Paul Vincent Carroll, a playwright devoutly critical of the Catholic Church

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A 1949 production of The White Steed by the Progressive Players, Gateshead, England. The Abbey rejected the play, proclaiming it too anti-clerical for the Irish stage. In response, Carroll published a scathing critique of the Abbey management in The Irish Times, dismissing the board as “self-appointed magistrates of the arts … some of whom hate the living theatre and fear its full and true interpretive expression”.

The Abbey staged Shadow and Substance in 1937, along with Carroll’s one-act play Coggerers (later renamed Conspirators). Both plays were popular and critical successes, especially Shadow and Substance, which played to sold-out houses, prompting the Abbey to tout Carroll as a major new talent in Irish drama. The play also enjoyed a successful run on Broadway, where it won a New York Drama Critics Award in 1938.

Fri Jan 16 2015 - 07:43

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