OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  John Boyd 

• Setting

  Summer 1974.

• Synopsis

  Guests gather for a party in the living-room of middle-class Belfast widow Maria Carey, to fulfil her husband's request to mark the anniversary of his death. Each faces a personal crisis, but is living life apparently remote from the ongoing disturbances in the city around them. Then violence erupts, and their quiet individual existences are shattered.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  11

• Female

  6

• Total

  17

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  25 September 1974

• Producer

  Produced by Lyric Theatre

• Original Venue

  Lyric Theatre
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from the published script, and from the original production programme and press cuttings held at the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.