OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Sam Hanna Bell 

• Setting

  The comfortable kitchen of the Echlins two-storied farmhouse on the shores of Strangford Lough in 1912.

• Notes

  Adapted by Sam Hanna Bell for the stage from his novel 'December Bride'.

• Synopsis

  An adaptation by Sam Hanna Bell of his novel December Bride (1951). Sarah Gomartin and her mother come to work for the Echlin family, comprising a father and two brothers on a farm at Rathard. Crisis arises when Andrew, the father, dies, and Sarah continues to live with the two brothers, with an increasingly complex relationship developing between them.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  3

• Total

  10

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 February 1955

• Producer

  Produced by Ulster Group Theatre

• Original Venue

  Group Theatre
  

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