Irish theatre abounds with brilliant women " unlike the Abbey's programme
The Abbey will commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising with work by nine men and one woman. But its incoming co-directors should champion a very different model of national theatreThe Abbey theatre has seen riots, notoriously in 1907 and 1926, when Dublin audiences protested during performances of plays by JM Synge and Sean O'Casey. The latest rebellion has not erupted in the stalls of the theatre, but on…