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Signs and Wonders

A Comedy in Three Acts

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Janet McNeill 

  • Setting

    Belfast, the present.

  • Synopsis

    Florence Thompson's father, crippled in an accident, is apparently cured by his daughter in a miraculous act of healing. Word spreads through the neighbourhood, and Florence becomes a sensation, but then discovers that such powers do not always bring happiness.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

    • Cast size

  • Male

    6

  • Female

    6

  • Total

    12

  • Cast Notes

    12

Original Production

Original Cast
Effie Barbara Adair
Mrs. Lacey Audrey Bell
Dr. Graham Neil Landor
Mrs. Thompson Gertrude Russell
Chemist Assistant Laurence Beattie
Aunt Ellen Elizabeth Begley
Rev. James McHenry R.H. MacCandless
Seth Goodman Harold Goldblatt
William Thompson J.R. Mageean
Robert Thompson Maurice O'Callaghan
Florence Thompson Margaret D'Arcy
Bessie Elizabeth Graham
Production Team
Settings by Dan Fitzpatrick
Lighting Brian O'Connor
Produced by Harold Goldblatt
Stage Manager Dan Fitzpatrick
Effects Joan Keenan
Wardrobe Catherine Sumerton
Chief Electrician Dan O'Connell (1)
Records and Reproduction W. Erskine Mayne
House Manager Maurice O'Callaghan

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Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from the original production programme, press cuttings, and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.