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Three To Go

A Play in Three Acts

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Olga Fielden 

  • Setting

    The entire action of the play takes place in the drawing room of Lady Helen's house in the Sperrin Mountains on an evening in August, 1938.

  • Synopsis

    Three people are killed in a remote house in Ulster. The killer is eventually unmasked.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

    • Cast size

  • Male

    7

  • Female

    4

  • Total

    11

Original Production

Original Cast
Captain Felix O'Hare Edward Byrne
Hugh O'Neill William O'Gorman
Phyllis Smith Bonnie Fagan
Patrick K Dempsey J. Winter
Lady Helen O'Flanagan Ginette Waddell
Mrs O'Grady Maureen Delaney
Hannah Sheila Ward
Captain Oxenham Dan O'Herlihy
Hiram P Smith Brian O'Higgins
Maeve McFerran Ria Mooney
Mr Justice Barlow Rutherford Mayne
District Inspector, RUC Terry Wilson
Production Team
Settings by Anne Yeats
Produced by Frank Dermody
Stage Manager Udolphus Wright
Carpenter J F Barlow

Published Scripts

  • Title

    Three to Go: A thriller in three acts

  • Year

    1950

  • Published By

    HR Carter

  • Address

    Belfast
    Northern Ireland

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Unpublished Scripts

  • Contact

    Drama League of Ireland

  • Address

    Mill Theatre
    Dundrum Town Centre
    Dundrum, Dublin 16
    Republic of Ireland

  • Phone

    +353 (0)1 2969343

  • Email

    office@dli.ie

  • Website

    www.dli.ie

Rights Information

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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 and the Abbey Theatre archive.