OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Hugh Quinn 

• Setting

  Belfast

• Notes

  Published as 'Mrs McConaghy's Money'

• Synopsis

  A farce about a shrewd Belfast woman who develops an ingenious method of generating a comfortable income for herself by buying and trading life-insurance policies for unfortunates 'rescued' from the local workhouse.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  5

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  09 March 1931

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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.