OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Robert Hogan 

• Setting

  Over a period of three successive Summers, the action takes place mostly in and around Dublin but also partly in California.

• Synopsis

  Hogan explores the real pathos of people who believe they love each other and yet cannot communicate with each other. Bill, an American Literary Agent in his forties, who has split from his wife and family, picks up a pretty young Irish woman, who has been similarily abandoned with her son by her husband. She falls into his arms as much out of boredom as anything else. After the Summer's affair, he returns to the States and fails to get the divorce he had promised to his Dublin lover, causing her to slip into a depression. However, by the play's end, with both protagonists on their uppers, there exists a gleam of hope

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  5

• Total

  10

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  October 1972

• Production Notes

  Co-produced by Benkel Productions(a service division of ICS Ltd.)

• Producer

  Produced by Gate Theatre

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

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