OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Dermot Healy 

• Setting

  The play opens in a cottage on the Mullet Peninsula.

• Synopsis

  Timothy Lavell sits by the hearth in a cottage in contemporary Ireland. The fireplace opens and in stride his parents and his younger self. We follow Timmy from childhood, including times potato picking in Scotland, wall-building with his father, and as an elevator man in America before returning to the cottage where he was born.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  1

• Female

  2

• Total

  3

• Cast Notes

  Cast doubling is possible. See original production for details.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  1992

• Producer

  Produced by Theatre Omnibus

Source Of Information

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