OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Frank Carney 

• Setting

  A Factory.
  A Dockside Public House.
  A Room in a Tenement.
  A Bedroom in the House of Ultan T. Ferriter.
  A Theatre Bar.

• Synopsis

  Yvonne Artois, an artist, is giving an exhibition of her work. There are the usual bearded young men wearing corduroy in attendance. A tinker arrives and she has an epiphany about the shallowness of her life and goes off on an odyssey with her traveller guide through different milieus of the city.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  13

• Female

  13

• Total

  26

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  05 October 1942

• Producer

  Produced by Richards-Walsh Productions

• Original Venue

  3Olympia Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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