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Patricia Burke Brogan
Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the play is set in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. Eclipsed explores the practice of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers work as 'penitents' in church-run laundries. Supervised by nuns who regarded these women as mindless vessels of evil, the women were treated as virtual slaves and their infants were forcibly put up for adoption.
Plays General
Full-Length
9
Cast doubling is possible. See original production for details.
11 February 1992
Produced by Punchbag Theatre Company
Punchbag Theatre
Eclipsed
2008
Words on the Street
Six San Antonio ParkSalthillGalwayRepublic of Ireland
publisher@wordsonthestreet.com
www.wordsonthestreet.com/index.htm
978-0955260445
1992
Salmon Publishing
KnockevenCliffs of MoherCounty ClareRepublic of Ireland
+ 353 (0)65 7081941
bookshop@salmonpoetry.com
1897648340
All Territories
All Rights
Inisfail, 42 College RoadGalwayRepublic of Ireland
The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.
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