OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Máire Stafford 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Brian Friel

• Setting

  Faoin tuath in Éirinn.

• Synopsis

  Joe and Mag are preparing for their final school exams and for marriage. As they plan their future, they promise each other that they will live happily ever after. When they are drowned, they cannot possibly break this promise. These are the winners. The lovers are older than in the second piece but their passion, at first, is no less real. It is their marriage that brings its share of compromises and unhappiness.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  5

• Total

  8

• Cast Notes

  8

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  13 March 1988

• Production Notes

  Ba dhá dhráma taobh le taobh a bhí anseo.

• Producer

  Produced by An Taibhdhearc

• Original Venue

  An Taibhdhearc
  

Source Of Information

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