Torch Theatre, Dublin

The Torch Theatre was a theatre located in Capel Street, Dublin, which operated from 1935 to 1941.

Establishment

The Torch Theatre was founded by husband and wife team Charles L. Keogh and Evelyn Lund and opened on 27 February 1935. The building had previously been used as the headquarters of the United Trades Council, with the meeting room being converted into the theatre space. Another founding member was the artist Lilian Davidson, who under the stage name "Jennifer Maud", designed scenery and was a co-director in 1936.

Associations

The semi-professional company that was based out of the Torch Theatre specialised in productions of melodrama and opened with a production of The Colleen Bawn. Other plays the theatre produced were A Royal Divorce, In Memory of the Dead, Nell Gwynne, and Arrah-na-Pogue.