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The Gate Theatre has been established as a theatre company in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir, the Gate offered Dublin audiences an introduction to the world of European and American theatre and also to classics from the modern and Irish repertoire.
It was with the Gate that Orson Welles, James Mason and Michael Gambon began their acting careers.
In 1991, the Gate became the first theatre in the world to present a full retrospective of the nineteen stage plays of Samuel Beckett. This festival was repeated at New York’s Lincoln Centre Festival and the Barbican Centre in London.
The Gate also played a major role in the Beckett Centenary Festival, in partnership with Dublin’s leading cultural and academic institutions under the auspices of the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. In 2007, the Gate toured a critically acclaimed season, entitled GATE | BECKETT, to the Sydney Festival and, the following year, toured it to Lincoln Centre Festival in New York, starring Ralph Fiennes, Barry McGovern and Liam Neeson.
In 2008, the Gate completed a historic tour with its landmark production of Waiting for Godot which sold out 40 venues throughout the country in the first ever all-Ireland 32 county tour.
THE GATE THEATRE LAB has become a significant force in Irish Theatre, playing host to FREE pre-show talks, public interviews, rehearsed readings, new writing showcases, workshops, symposia, launches and forum meetings.
Since June 2011, three new works developed from rehearsed readings in the Lab have featured in the Gate Theatre programme; Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People, Anne-Marie Casey’s Little Women and Joseph O’ Connor’s My Cousin Rachel. The Lab has begun to establish its support of emerging writers with public readings of new plays, mentoring schemes, writers’ workshops and open interviews with established writers such as Emma Donoghue and Conor McPherson.
Also, the Lab provides training for the theatre community through initiatives such as the 2011 Director’s Symposium and a variety of workshops for actors.
The Lab has been used by a range of artists including companies such as Fishamble Theatre Company, Landmark Productions, Pan Pan Theatre Company, Second Age, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and many more independent actors, writers and directors.
The FREE pre-show talks and forum meetings have proved immensely popular, with informal sittings with artists and thinkers including Marina Carr, Ingrid Craigie, Hugo Hamilton, Ciaran Hinds, Patrick Mason, Frank McGuinness, Mark O’ Halloran, Mark O’ Regan, Fintan O’ Toole, David Parnell, Owen Rowe, Colm Toibín and Willie White.
THE TEAM
Michael Colgan, Director
Teerth Chung, Head of Production
David Quinlan, Theatre Manager
Jim McConnell, Production Manager
Caroline Kennedy, Aisling Quigley, Press & Marketing
Vincent Brightling, Front-of-House Manager
Gate Theatre,
Cavendish Row,
Parnell Square,
Dublin 1,
Ireland
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.