OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Con O'Leary 

• Setting

  Interior of a hovel

• Synopsis

  Peter Devoy decides to rob a valuable gold cross from a corpse, but is accosted by the local priest and cured of his greedy ways...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  1

• Total

  3

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  01 October 1919

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Presented as the centre of a programme with two other one act plays, Hyacinth Halvey by Lady Gregory, and The Piper by Conan O'Riordan.

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