OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Adrian Vale  Chloe Gibson 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Marcelle Maurette

• Author Notes

  Tranlsated and adapted from The original by Marcelle Maurette.

• Setting

  The Carmel at Lisieux, August 1911.

• Synopsis

  A papal commission is sent to examine whether or not, Therese Martin, a young Carmelite nun, is deserving of the designation of 'heroic'. Five of their witnesses have failed to recognise in her anything more exalted than a gentle acceptance of suffering. One member of the commission is troubled by these statements and recalls the five to rehear their accounts and this forms the core of the play.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  17

• Total

  22

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  23 September 1963

• Production Notes

  Produced by York Promotions by arrangement with Stanley Illsley and Leo McCabe.

• Producer

  Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival

• Original Venue

  3Olympia Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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