OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Patrick Gilligan 

• Setting

  Set in the crying room of a suburban church (an anteroom of many modern churches to which children who prove difficult during devotions may be taken, so as not to disturb the priest or congregation).

• Notes

  Presented alongside 'Part of the Main' by Grace Butt.

• Synopsis

  A study based on the birth-control controversy in the late 1960s after Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  4

• Total

  7

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  06 October 1969

• Production Notes

  Presented in association with Amalgamated Artists, in a season composed of three O. Z. Whitehead prizewinning one act plays.

• Original Venue

  Eblana Theatre
  

Source Of Information

Information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.