OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Desmond Fitzgerald 

• Setting

  The interior of a large kitchen during the Middle Ages.

• Synopsis

  A moral tale in which a mediaeval postulant repels the advances of two suitors, one of them a monk, before succumbing to martyrdom.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  6

• Female

  5

• Total

  11

• Cast Notes

  Two of the male cast are Monks, and a further four are Men (2) and Women (2)

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  02 September 1919

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Presented in a progammme with A Night at An Inn by Lord Dunsany, and Spreading the News by Lady Gregory

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and Ireland's Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 by Lennox Robinson, with additional information from press cuttings of the time.