OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Jack P. Cunningham 

• Author Notes

  Cunningham's play was a winning entry in an Abbey Theatre Playwriting compettition.

• Setting

  Set in a wild and boggy district of North Mayo, sometime around 1900.

• Synopsis

  A drunken poteen brewer murders his drunken elder brother and blames it on an innocent man, also drunk at the time. He very nearly gets away with it too, until in a fit of temper he shoves a hayfork through the side of Thomasheen Sweeney's dog, and Thomasheen, who happened to witness the killing, lets the cat out of the bag.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  1

• Total

  5

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  10 August 1950

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Presented on the Abbey Stage.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from press cuttings. Additional information, including crew credits, will be added at a future date if an original production programme is located in an archive.