OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Robert Harding 

• Notes

  The cast and character lists for this entry are drawn from reviews of the premiere production. As such, cast size details should be taken as approximate. Rutherford Mayne appeared in the orignal cast under his real name Samuel John Waddell.

• Synopsis

  A play focusing on an Ulster election, and the progress of a new conciliation party in the north. Loftus Rankin is standing for the new party, and he claims the full support of Hugh Elewynn, a noted Gaelic propagandist, for his efforts. Elewynn's support is in fact not guaranteed, however, as he feels his ideas should not be mixed with electioneering. Potentially ruining Rankin's chances, he decides to dissociate himself from the election, until Rankin's fiancee Mary Hamilton intervenes and his situation is rescued.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  6

• Female

  1

• Total

  7

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  24 April 1908

• Producer

  Produced by Ulster (Literary)Theatre

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from press cuttings, and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.