OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Christine Longford 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Maria Edgeworth

• Author Notes

  Based on the 1812 novel of the same name

• Setting

  The Crush Room at the Covent Garden Opera, London, 1810
  Lady Clonbrony's Drawing Room, London
  The Library at Killpatrickstown
  

• Synopsis

  The young English Lord Colambre is shocked to learn that the agent for his family's estate in Ireland has been embezzling the rent and behaving like a tyrant to the tenants. Colambre resolves to return to Ireland full-time rather than act as an 'absentee landlord' as his father had done.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  9

• Female

  9

• Total

  18

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  29 March 1938

• Producer

  Presented by Longford Productions

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

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