OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Lady Gregory 

• Setting

  Irish Village in Elizabethan times

• Synopsis

  A miller, Peter Canavan, struggles to stay away from the gallows as the return of his brother Anthony, a deserter from the Queen's army, brings trouble upon him.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  2

• Total

  5

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  24 November 1906

• 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 Ireland's Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 by Lennox Robinson, with additional information from press cuttings of the time.