OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Hugh Leonard 

• Adapted / Translated From

  John McGahern

• Setting

  The Action of the play takes part for the most part in the Garda Barracks in a small village in the midlands.

• Synopsis

  Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom--and loneliness--marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  5

• Total

  12

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  06 October 1969

• Producer

  Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival In association with Gemini Productions

• Original Venue

  3Olympia Theatre
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and other published material.