OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Margaret O'Leary 

• Setting

  The action takes place in the County Cork.

• Notes

  Remarking on the audience's enthusiastic reaction to the play, critic Joseph Holloway suggested that O'Leary's piece was in some respects a female response to Synge's Playboy Of The Western World,and that the gypsy Ellen Dunne bore certain similarities to Christy Mahon.

• Synopsis

  Maurice O'Hara, a widower with two children, falls in love with gypsy Ellen Dunn, but is unwilling to part with his life of comfort to live with her by the side of the road.

  A realist peasant drama set in rural county Cork.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  4

• Total

  11

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  10 September 1929

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

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