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The Man in the Cloak

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Louis d'Alton 

  • Setting

    A Doss House in Bride Street, Dublin. An Opium Dream.
    Time: an evening in June 1849

  • Synopsis

    The poet James Clarence Mangan comes to a doss house in Dublin at the height of a cholera epidemic during the famine. He falls into a opium-drugged dream which replays the course of his own life - his escape from a bullying father, his love for his pupil Catherine Hayes and his fall into alcoholism.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

    • Cast size

  • Male

    10

  • Female

    4

  • Total

    14

Original Production

Original Cast  
James Clarence Mangan Cyril Cusack
A Messenger P.H. Considine
Laurence Tighe Tom Purefoy
Blythe J. Winter
Catherine Hayes Shelah Richards
Marty Phelan W. O'Gorman
Cis Carmody Sheila Ward
Bridie Gilheaney Josephine Fitzgerald
James Mangan Fred Johnson
Con Colgan Seamus Healy
Kate Mangan Ann Clery
Mick Fogarty Eric Gorman
A Doctor Cecil Barror
John Mangan Malachi Keegan
Production Team  
Settings by Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Produced by Hugh Hunt

Published Scripts

  • Title

    Two Irish plays; The man in the cloak, The mousetrap, by Louis L. D'Alton.

  • Year

    1938

  • Published By

    Macmillan and Co.

  • Address

    London
    England

Rights Information

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Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the published play text and from press cuttings of the time.