OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Micheál Mac Liammóir 

• Setting

  The action of the play is a room in Antony Conlon's house in Dublin.

• Notes

  The unpublished script in the Mac Liammóir papers at National Library of Ireland uses the alternative title 'Shadow of a Dancer'.

• Synopsis

  A melodrama about the tragic shadow a Spanish dancer casts across the fate of a Dublin family, the Conlons. Tina Conlon is in fact the daughter of the dancer and thus not related by blood to the brother, Larry, she adores so much, a fact that will complicate their adult life together.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  6

• Total

  10

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  17 February 1941

• Producer

  Presented by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

• Original Venue

  Gaiety Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and from press cuttings.