Talk:Pike Theatre

Details from Leagues O'Toole's book The Humours of Planxty

Dear fellow editors;
For those interested in the present article, there is additional and verifiable content available in the subject book, related by Andy Irvine, who had performed as an actor at the Pike Theatre in the early 1960s:

The acting world, in which Andy was still professionally involved, soon paled in comparison to the potential depth of expression, not to mention social fun activities, that music offered. So, as music began to take precedence, he got the last of his acting impulses out of his system. 'I played in The Olympia, The Gate, The Eblana and The Pike Theatre, which was a tiny little forty-nine-seater. The Pike had closed after the debacle of a production of The Rose Tattoo, the Tennessee Williams play, which was deemed a little bit outrageous for Dublin in 1957. The show was closed and the theatre with it, and it had been 'dark' until these three girls took it over, one of whom was Deirdre McCartan, who later became Ronnie Drew's wife. The first show they put on was two one-act plays, one of which was The Zoo Story by Edward Albee. It lasted about forty-five minutes, but there were only two actors in it, and about fifteen pages of speech for me! Anyway, it went quite well.

—Leagues O'Toole, The Humours of Planxty.

Although Irvine doesn't give precise dates about the above play, it is well documented that he moved to Dublin "in 1962" and that his last performance as an actor was in Sir Buccaneer at the Olympia Theatre, on 28 September 1964.

I hope this helps a little.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^{(talk)(guestbook)} 11:37, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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