OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Ralph Kennedy 

• Setting

  The scene throughout is the public parlour of the licensed premises known as Railway House, situated about thirty miles inland from Dublin. The action passes between the spring and early summer of 1853.

• Synopsis

  A manipulative woman whose alcoholic husband seems at death's door plays on the affections of a young man until she attracts a better prospect.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  6

• Female

  3

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  20 November 1944

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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