OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  William Butler Yeats 

• Setting

  An open place in a town, before dawn. The Throne-room in the Queen's palace.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  12

• Female

  4

• Total

  16

• Cast Notes

  Principal cast is as above with doubling on two of the named male roles. There are also Citizens (4 etc), Countrymen (3 etc) and Players (5 etc) with some doubling in the programme.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  09 December 1919

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  The play was presented at the centre of a programme with two one act plays - Friends by Herbert Farjeon, and Meadowsweet by Seamus O'Kelly

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