OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Brinsley MacNamara 

• Setting

  Ballycullen, a town in the Irish Midlands during a night in Winter, 1917; an afternoon in Spring, 1918; an evening in Summer, 1918.

• Synopsis

  In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising the lives and political sympathies of a small-town community are exposed when a young writer returns from college in Dublin to write a book on his home town.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  3

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  11 March 1919

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Presented in a programme with Lady Gregory's The Rising of the Moon.

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.