OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Patricia O'Connor 

• Setting

  Bryson's Farm, Markhinch, Co. Down.

• Synopsis

  When elderly bachelor Frank Bryson inherits money and a farm from his Uncle Davy, he decides to follow a family pattern and stay single. With no family of his own, everything will be left for inheritance in due course to his own nephew, John. But John is unhappy at this; impatient to marry his sweetheart Margaret and settle down, he decides to emigrate to Australia and earn to carry out his plans. Margaret herself has plans, however, and refuses to wait at home for an emigrant. Instead, she tries to force the issue by changing the established family patterns, and little by little others begin to share her opinion.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  6

• Total

  11

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  30 March 1955

• Producer

  Produced by Ulster Group Theatre

• Original Venue

  Group Theatre
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry has come from the company programme for the premiere production, the published script, and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.