OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Lady Gregory 

• Setting

  Outside the Gate of Jerusalem.
  Outside Pilate's Palace.
  By the side of the road leading to Calvary.
  

• Notes

  "Our tradition and that of Gaelic Scotland, speak of St. Brigit as 'the foster-mother of Christ', and I have been told by poor women of Slieve Echtge that she succoured both Blessed Mother and Child when they were brought here by a Heavenly Messenger for safety in Herod's time, and that she 'kept an account of every drop of blood he lost through his lifetime'. So it is not going very far from that tradition to suppose she may have been present at the end of his life as at the beginning, and have told the story in her own way, as she had seen it in the body or in vision." A. Gregory

• Synopsis

  Lady Gregory tells the story of Christ in her own invented dialect of Kiltartan and through the eyes of St. Brigit.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  14

• Female

  6

• Total

  20

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  15 April 1924

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.