OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Maurice Davin-Power 

• Setting

  The action takes place in a middle-class sitting room, present day(1967).

• Notes

  Produced as part of the O.Z. Whitehead prize winning season alongside Michael Judge's 'Please Break the Glass Gently'.

• Synopsis

  Set in a middle class household when the duaghter returns home with her new husband after a courtship of only six weeks. It's not long before we discover that she is mentally deranged and the new husband is put in the position where he has to sign his new bride in to a mental asylum. The mother is pleased that, in the eyes of her neighbours, at least she is not responsible for the institutionalisation of her daughter.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  2

• Total

  4

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  05 October 1967

• Production Notes

  In association with O.Z. Whitehead.

• Producer

  Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival

• Original Venue

  Eblana Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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