Out of the Abbey – 2018 Touring and Partnerships

This year we will be getting out of the Abbey Theatre in lots of different ways to bring sell-out shows to audiences in Dublin, London, Limerick, Galway and Cork.

Hit shows Not a Funny Word, The Plough and the Stars, Jimmy’s Hall and Two Pints are all performing ‘Out of the Abbey’ in 2018.

Not a Funny Word 

Not A Funny Word

Tara Flynn’s Not a Funny Word was presented as a work in progress at the Abbey Theatre in 2017. This March it plays at the Complex in Smithfield as part of Where We Live, presented by THISSISPOPBABY with St Patrick’s Festival 2018.

  • 6 – 10 March at The Complex, Dublin 
  • 26 April at The Everyman, Cork 

The Plough and the Stars 

 

Seen by over 50,000 people in 2016, Sean  Holmes’ refreshed, high-energy restaging of The Plough and the Stars opens in the Lyric Hammersmith in London, before returning to Dublin for a run at the Gaiety Theatre.

  • 15 March – 7 April at Lyric Hammersmith, London
  • 24 April – 5 May at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin 

Jimmy’s Hall 

Jimmy's Hall

It was the must show last summer, now it’s back. Jimmy’s Hall will open in the Lime Tree Theatre in Limerick before travelling to Dublin and on to the Town Hall Theatre, Galway and Cork Opera House.

  • 14 – 21 July at the Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick 
  • 11 – 15 September at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway 
  • 18 – 22 September at the Cork Opera House, Cork 

Two Pints 

Two Pints

After a sell-out tour of pubs across Ireland in 2017, Roddy Doyle’s ‘achingly, breathtakingly funny’ Two Pints will be back on the road later this year.

Dates and venues to follow!