OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Mary Manning (1) 

• Setting

  Dublin, March 1930

• Synopsis

  A satire that exposes the shallowness of middle-class Dublin life in the 1930s for the 'bright young things': educated, privileged, bored. Deirdre has a cynically scientific view of love, Terence Killigrew is an alcoholic poet and Desmond is a man of excess passivity.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  6

• Female

  6

• Total

  12

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  08 December 1931

• Producer

  Presented by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Source Of Information

The information for this listing was taken from the play's original production programme.