OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Maurice Dalton 

• Setting

  The Parke family home in Cork; 1916

• Synopsis

  The son of a Cork bank manager and constitutional nationalist goes off to join the fighting in Dublin at Easter, 1916.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  3

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  16 September 1918

• 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.