OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Paul Lee 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Flann O'Brien

• Author Notes

  Adapted for the stage from the original by Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O'Brien.

• Synopsis

  A satire on the life of the true Gael. The action is set in a fictional village in the Gaeltacht known as Corkadoragha, a place where the suffering and poverty of the Gaelic people is pure and unmitigated. The tale is in first-person narrative and purports to be the life story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, a local resident. In Corkadoragha, according to the narrator, the torrential rains are more torrential, the squalor more squalid, the hopelessness more utterly hopeless than they are anywhere else in Ireland.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Total

  2

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  June 1989

• Producer

  Produced by Dry Bread Theatre Company

• Venue Notes

  First presented at An Beal Bocht, Dublin.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from a profile of Dry Bread Theatre Company.