OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Bernard Duffy 

• Synopsis

  Aloysius Kinsella is an elderly poet whom two widows are anxious to marry. Joe Hegarty is engaged to Kinsella's niece Nora, and the two plot to have Aloysius marry Mrs. Hegarty as opposed to her rival Mrs. Mulvey. They delight in their scheming, only to finally discover that Aloysius and Mrs. Hegarty have beaten them to it and got married a month previously.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  3

• Total

  5

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  11 December 1916

• 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.