OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Arnold Sundgaard 

• Setting

  The Framework, exterior and interior of an old house on the outskirts of St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Synopsis

  Opening on three elderly characters in Minnesota, who are nagging and remenbering at each other, we soon fade back to their beginnings in Norway as an orphan girl, the village playboy and the weakling son of a stern father all emigrate to America. In time weakling and wife come to share their home with playboy and history takes it's course.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  16 February 1965

• Production Notes

  Produced by Mitch Miller and M. O'Malley O'Donoghue.

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.