OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Dorothy Macardle 

• Setting

  The living room of Mrs Farraher's house, an afternoon in early April and the evening of Saturday in Holy Week. The living room at Huggards', the same night.

• Synopsis

  A poor rural family try to come to terms with the death of their father. One son, a returned emigrant, is convinced that the death was not accidental. Further complications develop as the daughter of the house arrangest to marry the son of the man who may well have been her father's murderer.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  17 December 1918

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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