© Amelia Stein, production photograph from The Wake, with Jane Brennan
OVERVIEW
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Playwright
Tom Murphy
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Synopsis
Vera O'Toole is alone, adrift and living dangerously in New York where she survives as a call-girl. But she has a sustaining thought, a dream. She is not alone, she feels, because she has a family in Ireland. Indeed, some day she may even become worthy of that family. Now, as the story begins, she returns home to Ireland to pay her respects to her dead and beloved grandmother and to discover her dream, her sustaining thought, turning into a nightmare.
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Play Type
Plays General
Number Of Acts
Full-Length
Cast size
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Male
5
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Female
5
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Total
10