OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  M.M. Brennan 

• Setting

  The Living-room of Mrs. Hayden's Boarding House in Dublin.

• Synopsis

  Mrs. Hayden is an awful harridan who treats her pretty step-daughter Kitty as an unpaid servant. Gerald O'Grady comes to stay at the boarding house and is appalled at the treatment meted out to Kitty. He's skint and as a last throw of the dice, he buys two hospital sweep-stake tickets and makes a present of one of them to Kitty. Guess what happens next in this comedy-romance!

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  3

• Total

  7

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 November 1932

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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