OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Daniel Corkery 

• Setting

  The Committee Room of the Quaymen's Union, evening; and the following afternoon. And a room behind the stage of the Athenaeum Hall the evening of the same day.

• Synopsis

  An examination of the tensions that develop behind the scenes among union members during a dockers strike in Cork.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  10

• Female

  2

• Total

  12

• Cast Notes

  There are also miscellaneous Quay Labourers and Workmen

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  30 September 1919

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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