OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Elizabeth Connor 

• Setting

  The entire action of the play takes place in the drawing-room of Mount Prospect in Bridgetown, from spring in one year, to the following spring, to autumn later that year.

• Synopsis

  Connor's first play, adapted from her novel of the same name, reveals the character of a destructive widow who uses her husband's will to advance her own son over two children from her husband's first marriage.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  8

• Total

  12

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  22 April 1940

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and Ireland's Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 by Lennox Robinson, with additional information from press cuttings of the time and from the National Library.