The Druid Theatre Company, founded in Galway in 1975, was the first Irish professional theatre company to be established outside Dublin. Galway (Gaillimh is the only city in the province of Connacht in Ireland. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally after the three had met and put on productions together while members of the University College Galway (now NUIG) Drama Society. Garry Hynes (born June 10 1953 is an Irish Theatre director. Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen Roscommon County and educated at St Marie Mullen (born 1953 is an Irish actress She was one of the founding members of the Druid Theatre Company and her husband has been associated with the company many times Mick Lally (born 1945 is an Irish actor Lally was born in Ireland. The National University of Ireland Galway ( NUI Galway) ( Irish Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh or OÉ Gaillimh) is a tertiary-level Garry Hynes is the only woman to have won a Tony Award for best director. The Tony Award for Best Direction has been given since 1947 In 1960 the award was split into two categories Dramatic and Musical. The play for which she won the award (The Beauty Queen of Leenane) also won three others. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1998 drama by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh premiered by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway Ireland Part of The Beauty Queen of Leenane was performed at the Tony Award's Ceremony in 1998. Hynes was again nominated the following year for the same award (The Lonesome West). The Lonesome West is a play by contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, part of his Connemara trilogy which includes The Beauty
From its Galway home, it has been to the fore in the development of Irish theatre, performing in its home in Chapel Lane, elsewhere in Galway, Ireland and beyond. Druid has toured extensively at home and abroad (including visits in recent years to London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Perth, Washington D. C. and New York), winning a formidable international reputation for both classic work and new work, and making the company one of the most well-known in the English speaking theatre world.
It has led the way in the development of Irish theatre in the ensuing years and is generally credited (along with Macnas, and the Galway Arts Festival) with making Galway one of the premier cultural centres in Ireland. Macnas, based at the black box theatre in Galway, is Ireland 's leading performance company The Galway Arts Festival ( Féile Ealaíon na Gaillimhe) takes place in Galway Ireland every July In 2005, DruidSynge, a production of all six plays of John Millington Synge as a day-long cycle, or multi-day series of double bills, was envisioned by Garry Hynes and premiered at the 2005 Galway Arts Festival to critical acclaim. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. DruidSynge is a Theatre production of the complete plays of John Millington Synge by the Irish based Druid Theatre Company. Edmund John Millington Synge ( (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909 was an Irish Playwright, Poet, Prose writer and collector of Folklore. [1] Druid's contribution to the 2007 Dublin theatre festival was a production of Eugene O'Neill's acclaimed autobiographical play, Long Day's Journey Into Night. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16 1888–November 27 1953 was a Nobel -prize winning American playwright Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1956 dramatic play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill, widely considered to be his masterwork
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- ^ http://www.druidtheatre.com/press.php?id=42 (retrieved 20 August 2006)
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