Before becoming a longtime patron of this venue, Lady Gregory helped establish its predecessor at the Antient Concert Rooms with a production of The Countess Cathleen. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this venue where the “Playboy Riots” occurred in 1907 during the premiere of a J.M. Synge play.
ANSWER: Abbey Theatre [or National Theatre of Ireland]
[10e] This co-founder of the Abbey Theatre wrote The Countess Cathleen, as well as the poems “Easter, 1916” and“Sailing to Byzantium.”
ANSWER: William Butler Yeats
[10m] This author loved a song from The Countess Cathleen so much that he had his character Buck Mulligan recite it. The play Exiles draws on a story by this author in which Bartell D'Arcy’s singing saddens Gabriel Conroy’s wife.
ANSWER: James Joyce (Buck Mulligan is from Ulysses. The unnamed story is “The Dead.”)
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