OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Dorothy Macardle 

• Setting

  The West of Ireland

• Notes

  According to Cathy Leeney (' Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939': Peter Lang, 2010), the original manuscript for 'Dark Waters' has never been found. The same is true of many of Macardle's plays, possibly, as Leeney suggests, because her personal papers were destroyed by her younger brother after her death in 1958.

• Synopsis

  Oliver Carmichael is an invalid who gradually becomes obsessed with the prophecies of familial doom set down by a long-dead ancestor in his manuscripts. One day Oliver's daughter Una sees in her mirror the haunted face of a future lover who is destined to cause her pain...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  13 September 1932

• Producer

  Produced by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from press cuttings and from Cathy Leeney's 2010 volume 'Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939'.