OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Mary Manning (1) 

• Setting

  The Lounge Hall of Boylan's - a small hotel in Co. Wicklow. About 4 o'clock on Sunday afteroon of the Whitsuntide weekend, 1931.

• Notes

  According to Cathy Leeney ('Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939'), the script for 'Storm Over Wicklow' cannot be traced.

• Synopsis

  One-act farce about English tourists who, having taken to heart AE and Lennox Robinson's advice to 'seek some place in the mountains - as far away from Dublin as possible',travel to the wilds of Wicklow and come upon a small isolated hotel. Bad weather descends and the guests of the hotel are forced into a certain intimacy...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  6

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  14 March 1933

• Producer

  Produced by Gate Theatre

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Storm Over Wicklow played in a triple bill with 'Princely Fortune' by Su Ting Po and 'St. Patrick's Day' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from press cuttings