OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Michael J. Murphy (2) 

• Notes

  The cast and character lists for this entry are drawn from reviews of the premiere production. As such, cast size details should be taken as approximate

• Synopsis

  Sensitive, intelligent Anne Lavelle lives in a tightly-knit rural area where she has suffered humiliation all her life, being stigmatised as an illigitimate child. When a new-born child is found abandoned in the district, she is immediately suspected by the community, and one by one, even her former supporters reject her and she becomes an outcast.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  8

• Female

  2

• Total

  10

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  28 July 1953

• Producer

  Produced by Ulster Group Theatre

• Original Venue

  Group Theatre
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from press cuttings, and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.