OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Frank Carney 

• Setting

  Seanteach solais ar an gcósta taobh le Cuan Módh sna caogaidí.

• Synopsis

  Play set in a lighthouse in Clew bay where a man, gone half-crazy with piety, his senile father his aged mother and his three children live. They have been hiding from the world for 21 years. The fact that the eldest daughter has given birth to an imbecile and illegitimate child had driven the family from the mainland to live in the old lighthouse. The child was kept in chains in a large cupboard in the kitchen, fed by its mother and kept well hidden. No one is happy and when the eldest son returns from the US he goes about changing things.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  9

• Female

  5

• Total

  14

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  29 June 1959

• Producer

  Produced by An Damer In association with Aisteoirí Chéitinn

• Original Venue

  The Damer Hall/An Damer
  

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón gclár don chéad léiriú agus ó Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge 1900-1970 le P Ó Siadhail.