OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Walter Macken 

• Setting

  The action takes place in the present in the second storey of a house in Buttermilk Lane in the city of Galway.

• Synopsis

  A family in an old Galway tenement are faced with the choice of staying where they are or moving to a new corporation house in Shantalla. A dangerously unstable fellow tenant, an ill child, and luck in the Sweepstakes determine what decisions they make.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  6

• Female

  3

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  11 February 1946

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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