OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Frank X O'Leary 

• Setting

  The small town of Kilduff, sometime during the War of Independence

• Synopsis

  Set against a period of extreme political turbulence, young Gertie Kelleher finds herself falling in love with a Sinn Féiner and an RIC inspector at the same time...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  8

• Female

  5

• Total

  13

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  25 September 1933

• Producer

  Produced by 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.