OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Kate O'Brien 

• Setting

  Brixton, London, 1920s

• Synopsis

  Mable Hemworth is a houseproud, lower-middle class wife, more concerned with keeping up appearances than responding to her husband Natty's affections. Natty falls for Frances Llewellyn, a bookish, artistic, neighbour, with ultimately tragic consequences.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  12 July 1926

• Producer

• Original Venue

  Haymarket Theatre
  

• Venue Notes

  First professional performance was at the Haymarket Theatre, also known as the Little Theatre. Play was earlier peformed, on May 2, at the Aldwych Theatre, by an amatuer company.

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Performed at the Abbey Theatre in January 1929.

Source Of Information

From Kate O'Brien: A Writing Life by Eibhear Walshe (Irish Academic Press; 2006)