OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Leon Ó Broin 

• Setting

  An t-urlár uachtarach i dtigh mór i Warsaw le linn éirí amach an Taoisigh Pylowski, 1925.

• Notes

  D'aistrigh an Comhar Drámaíochta suíomh an dráma seo ó Bhaile Átha Cliath go Warsaw. Is i mBaile Átha Cliath atá sé lonnaithe sa leagan foilsithe.

• Synopsis

  Séamus and Colm are good friends but they find themselves on different sides during the Civil War. Séamus is an officer in the Free State Army. We meet the wives of the two men and Eibhlín, Colm’s wife, is worried that something awful is about to happen to Colm because of an incident that happened during the Black & Tan occupation. In the end Colm is killed on the roof of his own house as he lays in ambush – it is Séamus who kills him. This was the first play in Irish which attempted to describe the Civil War. However, the location was changed to Warsaw when it was first produced.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  2

• Total

  4

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 November 1927

• Producer

  Produced by An Comhar Drámaíochta

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón gclár don chéad léiriú agus ó thráchtas neamhfhoilsithe Uí Shiadhail