OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Maura Laverty 

• Setting

  The action takes place in the Nolans' home in Tolka Row, on the outskirts of Dublin.

• Synopsis

  Laverty's second play is set in a Dublin Corporation housing scheme. The Nolan household in Tolka Row, houses Rita, her husband, son and daughter, her father and her husbands sister. Her father, a retired bargee, kindly and interfering gets on with most in the house, with the exception of Rita's sister-in-law. When the favourite daughter arrives back from England with her husband, room must be made and Rita sends her father to live with other relatives by a stratagem that would not hurt his feelings.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  6

• Total

  10

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  08 October 1951

• Producer

  Produced by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

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