OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  John Kelly (3) 

• Setting

  Set in Ned Doyle's room at the front of a tenement building on Dublin's Mountjoy Square.

• Notes

  In the original production the play was preceded by 'Shapes', a one-act experiment by John Kelly.

• Synopsis

  In this tragi-comedy of the Dublin slums, we meet two out-of-work philosphers, Ned Doyle from Dublin and Pat Maher from the North who simply try to fathom what it's all about.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  2

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  31 July 1961

• Producer

  Produced by John Molloy Productions

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

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