OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Declan Gorman 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Patrick Kavanagh

• Synopsis

  In 1937-38, while the rest of Europe is preparing for war, Patrick Kavanagh sits in his tiny London lodgings writing his memoir of an idyllic childhood and adolescence in the parish of Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. His is a memoir of beautiful, charming characters with boundless good humour. As Kavanagh tries to recreate his past, he is distracted by an unrequited sexual desire for a servant girl and as a gathering legal storm looms about a libellous passage in his book he faces eviction by his landlady. He is also haunted by an unwanted presence urging him to alter his story - the insistent voice of an older man returned to try to change the course of his own history.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  43

• Female

  30

• Total

  73

• Cast Notes

  Cast Doubling is possible. See original production for details.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  20 October 2004

• Producer

  Produced by Upstate Theatre Project

• Original Venue

  Pavilion Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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