| DEIRDRE | W B Yeats play performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1906 |
| THEPLAYBOYOFTHEWESTERNWORLD | Three-act play by John Millington Synge that provoked riots when it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January 1907 |
| FUGUE | Stephen Tomas play performed at The Maltings Arts Centre in 2019 (5) |
| PLAY | Leads in Private Lives and Yentl performed at The Abbey (4) |
| PANTOMIME | Play performed at Christmas |
| GREGORY | Isabella Augusta, Lady ___, co-founder with Yeats of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (7) |
| OCASEY | SeA¡n __, Irish playwright long associated with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (6) |
| SYNGE | Irish playwright at the Abbey Theatre, J.M. ___ (b.1871 - d.1909) |
| SHOOTAT | Go Away opens at The Abbey Theatre - it could be an attempt at a big hit (5,2) |
| YEATS | W. B. -; Irish poet who cofounded the Abbey Theatre (5) |
| TREATMENT | The director's handling of the play performed in The Theatre (9) |
| OBERAMMERGAU | Venue in southern Germany of a Passion Play performed every ten years to recall the outbreak of the Black Death there in 1633 (12) |
| ABBEY | ? Theatre, Dublin venue destroyed by fire in 1951, rebuilt and reopened in 1966 (5) |
| JMSYNGE | Playwright who co-founded the Abbey Theatre |
| DUMBWAITER | The - - - - - -, Harold Pinter play performed by Danny Dyer and Martin Freeman in London in 2019 (4,6) |
| ABBESS | Play a leading role at The Abbey overseeing The Three Sisters, among others (6) |
| ROLEPLAY | Reading heard at fiesta and at the abbey can be therapeutic for the actors (4-4) |
| CASSOCKS | Endless ready money for the footwear designed by the costume department at The Abbey presumably (8) |
| MAKEITEASY | Take the soft option to produce one Yeats' play (4,2,4) |
| STAGEPRODUCTION | Protest essentially feeding exceptionally dangerous topic of play performed in theatre (5,10) |
