OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Wesley Burrowes 

• Setting

  The action takes place in the study of the Dean of Ards and Duck, and thereafter alternates between the Men's Reading Room and the Mens Confraternity on Duck Island situated off the coast of Co. Down, in Strangford Lough.

• Synopsis

  This comedy is set on the allegorical island of Duck, where people hold beliefs because their fathers, grand-fathers and great-great-grandfathers held them. Change is considered to be an insolent affront to the natural order, and the earnest efforts of professional conciliators and international do-gooders are seen to be about as useful and practical as the gold on whin-bushes.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  12

• Female

  2

• Total

  14

• Cast Notes

  Cast-doubling is possible. See original production for details.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  16 August 1980

• Producer

  Produced by Irish Theatre Company (2)

• Venue Notes

  First performed at the Convent of Mercy, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.

Source Of Information

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