Letter from C.J. Leventhal
Letter written to Teresa Devy after the author attended her play 'Reapers'.
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New play by Miss Deevy
Review of the first Abbey Production of 'The Wild Goose'. "Rich in dialogue and brilliant in constrcution, the plot lacks purpose and dramatic appeal".
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Waterford Author's rise to fame: Teresa Deevy's plays in Book Form: Fascinating Reading
Review of 'Three Plays'. The newspaper is Waterford based and focuses
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Miss Deevy's Plays
Review of Teresa Deevy's 'Three Plays'. Other books reviewed include 'Last Poems and Plays' by W.B. Yeats, and 'The Star Turns Red' by Sean O'Casey.
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A new Abbey Play: Miss T.Deevy's "Katie Roche": Interview with the Author.
Interview with Teresa Deevy during dress rehersals for 'Katie Roche'.
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The Reapers, a play in three acts
Review of the first Abbey Theatre production of 'The Reapers'. "I confess I was not very much impressed by this new play: but I hasten to add that I have been a great deal more bored by others I have seen".
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Waterford Lady's First Play: A night at the abbey Theatre
Review of the first Abbey Theatre production of 'The Reapers'. "Miss Deevy's remarkable strength in dislogue lends power to "The Reapers"".
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At the play. (By St. John Ervine.): More famous plays
Review of Gollancz's 1935/1936 'Famous Plays', including Tersa Deevy's 'Katie Roche'. "The last play in the volume is Miss Teresa Deevy's "Katie Roche," and it is , I feel inclined to say, the most remarkable of them".
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A new Comedy
Review of the first Abbey Production of 'A Disciple'. "Miss Deevy's play is a study of of Ellie's mind. It is a mind in revolt agains its convent education".
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Abbey Theatre play contest: Man and woman tie for big prize: Judges comments
An article on Teresa Deevy winning the Abbey Theatre / Aonach Tailteann playwriting competition with 'Temporal Powers'.
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Powerful drama at the Abbey: "The wild goose"
Review of the first Abbey Production of 'The Wild Goose'. "Miss Deevy is never dull, her craftsmanship, always good, has improved enormously, and in "The Wild Goose" she holds her audience absorbed throughout, because her play is packed with dr
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New Abbey Play
Photograph with caption. 'A scene from "Katie Roche," a new play by Miss Teresa Deevy, which was produced at the Abbey Theatre last evening, and will continue during the week. Stan Gregg (F.J. McCormick), and his sister Amelia (Ria Mooney). - I
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The Dublin Theatres: New play at the Abbey: "The King of Spain's Daughter"
Review of the first Abbey production of 'The King of Spain's Daughter', includes cast list.
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Theatre Royal
Leinster Theatre Company advertisement for a production of Katie Roche, in the Theatre Royal, Waterford on Friday September 4th.
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Abbey Theatre Play Competition
An article on Teresa Deevy winning the Abbey Theatre / Aonach Tailteann playwriting competition with 'Temporal Powers'.
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"The Reapers" : Work of new woman dramatist at the Abbey.
Review of the first Abbey production. "Miss Deevy's work reveals her as a playwright of no mean merit".
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Stage and Screen
Review of the first Abbey production of "The Reapers". "the play as a whole lacked spine, and that was really all that was wrong. The author has however, made a promising beginning, and next time, no doubt, we shall wave our hat".
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The Reapers: First production at the Abbey Theatre
Review of the first Abbey production of "The Reapers", includes cast list. "it would seem that Miss Deevy is a student of Tchechov; "The Reapers" might have strayed into "The Cherry Orchard" and there gathered some of the choicest wild flowers"
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Three plays by Teresa Deevy
Review of Teresa Deevy's 'Three Plays' by Lennox Robinson. "To my mind she is - perhaps I should say will be - the most importatn dramatist writing for the Irish theatre since 1930".
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Books of the Week: Irish Theatre: Some Notable Publications.
Review of Teresa Deevy's 'Three Plays'. "Miss Deevy came into prominence some years ago
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Drama Notes: The Reapers.
Review of the first Abbey Production of 'The Reapers'. "Miss Deevy's play shows the unthrifty husbandry of good firat plays. Her argument barks up too many trees in the first act, and sends us questing along too many false trails".
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"Katie Roche" at the Torch Theatre
Review of the Torch Theatre, London production of 'Katie Roche'. "Katie Roche could only be played, as it is being played at the Torch, with vivacious dignity. Here are none of the touches of burlesque that disfigure too many Irish plays."
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Irish Comedy in Knightsbridge: Production by the Torch Theatre
Review of the Torch Theatre, London production of 'Katie Roche'. "Teresa Deevy has written an Irish comedy which would mean a great deal more to an Irishman than it did to me".
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Katie Roche
Review of the first Abbey production of 'Katie Roche'. "Teresa Deevy has an extraordinary power of creating characters: the spoken lines are so good that we can without any effort fill in the blanks".
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Amazingly Vivid: Dublin Critic and Miss Deevy's New Play : Terrible years of penal code: Achieves what few modern writers have achieved
Review of the first Abbey Production of 'The Wild Goose', large portion taken from the Irish Times report.
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"Katie Roche" Miss Deevy's new play at the Abbey
Review of the first Abbey production of 'Katie Roche'. "It seems to be little more than a clever psychological study of an illegitimate girl who gives her name to the piece".
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"Katie Roche" at the Abbey
A review of the first Abbey producttion of 'Katie Roche'. "Miss Deevy has given us a splendid study of a girl all heart and no head, who does not realise that living and loving go hand in hand with suffering."
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"Strikingly Original" Waterford Lady's Proves winner in Abbey Theatre Contest
An article on Teresa Deevy winning the Abbey Theatre / Aonach Tailteann playwriting competition with 'Temporal Powers'.
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A masterpiece at the Abbey: Miss Deevy's new play
A review of the first Abbey prodcution of 'Katie Roche'. "Masterpiece is a word to be used sparingly but I have no hesitation in applying it to Miss Deevy's "Katie Roche".
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Concerning Meagher (or How Did He Die?)
Typescript draft, signed 'Teresa Deevy, 16 Waterloo Rd, Dublin'.
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