OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Séamus de Bhilmot 

• Setting

  Paróiste Dhruimshléibhe in iarthar na hÉireann, 1847. An gorta ag scrios na tíre.

• Synopsis

  A miracle play about a parish priest who wants to spend money on erecting a statue to "The Lady of the Famine" for her protection. Others want a more practical solution to their plight. A stranger arrives and offers to buy the statue for £300 and the priest realises that it is the devil. Just then a child runs in to say that a lady, identical to the lady of the statue, is outside giving bread to the poor.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  8

• Female

  5

• Total

  13

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  12 December 1938

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas faoin bhfoireann ó leabhar Lennox Robinson, Ireland's Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 agus an t-eolas faoi ábhar an dráma ó thráchtas neamhfhoilsithe Uí Shiadhail.