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They Went By The Bus

A Play in Three Acts

OVERVIEW

Playwright

Frank Carney
Synopsis

No synopsis available
Play Type

Plays General

Number Of Acts

Full-Length

Cast size

Male

11
Female

6
Total

17

Original Production

Date of First Production

04 December 1939
Producer

Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
Original Venue

Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

Original Cast
John Joe Martin	Cyril Cusack
First Man	Frank Biggar
Joe Kerrigan	Joseph Linnane
Sarah Harkin	Edith Lemass
Second Man	Martin Conboy
Mrs Moloney	M. Connolly
Bus Driver	Wilfred Brambell
Thomas Carroll	J. Winter
Joan Carroll	Cathleen Fawsitt
Mr Prescott	Austin Meldon
Badger Finnigan	Gertrude Quinn
Hannah	Sheila Ward
Bus Conductor	Seamus Healy
Mrs Sharkey	Isobel Couser
Jimmy Macken	Eric Gorman
Tady Finnigan	Finbar Howard
Michael Harkin	Cecil Barror
Sailor	William O'Gorman

Production Team
Director	Lennox Robinson
Set Designer	J F Barlow
Stage Manager	Cecil Ford
Scenic Artist	Anne Yeats

Unpublished Scripts

Contact

National Library of Ireland (Manuscripts Department)
Address

Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Republic of Ireland
Phone

+353 1 6030200
Email

info@nli.ie
Website

www.nli.ie

Rights Information

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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.

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