OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  M.M. Brennan 

• Setting

  Saturday Evening in a Dublin tenement

• Synopsis

  A comedy in which a Dublin labourer manages to capture a leprecaun by the banks of the Liffey. The little man has lost his enchanged hat, and thus his powers of invisibility. His captor brings him back to the turmoil and squalor of his own home, complete with a nagging wife, an idiot son and squabbling neighbours.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  3

• Total

  5

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  05 September 1922

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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