OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Frank Carney 

• Setting

  The drawingroom of Mrs Fitzgerald's house in a fashionable suburb of Dublin on an evening in February, a week later, and six months later.

• Synopsis

  A satire on comfortable Dublin bourgeois life in which a loiterer from the lower orders is given a chance to see how the other half lives.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  6

• Total

  11

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  25 November 1940

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  During the second week of the run, Isobel Couser took over the part of Nana.

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 the Abbey Theatre archive.