OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Joseph O'Connor (1) 

• Setting

  The action takes place during the day and into the night of Christmas Eve, some time in the future.

• Synopsis

  In an attic room far above Dublin, in the not too distant future, three old women are perched together like rare and endangered birds. Sister Veronica, Mother Bernard and Sister Eugenia Barker have spent thirty years in this strange institution, watching through their window as the city far below has forgotten them. But as this Christmas Eve dawns, fate is about to intervene with shattering consequences, and the world they thought so still is on the brink of being changed forever.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  3

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 October 1997

• Producer

  Produced by Gate Theatre

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and promotional flyer.