OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Austin Clarke 

• Synopsis

  A "poetic comedy" based upon a traditional tale from Co Wexford, the play concerns a servant named Cauth who is confronted by a succession of threats to her womanhood, each represented by expressionistic figures. A "charming variation on the Cinderella myth", according to the Irish Times.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

• Cast Size Male

  4

• Cast Size Female

  3

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  03 December 1944

• Producer

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  This was a production at the Abbey by the Lyric Theatre Company, which grew out of Austin Clarke's Dublin Verse-Speaking Society and operated out of the the Peacock from 1941 to 1944 and the Abbey proper from 1944 to 1951.

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