OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Buadhach Tóibín 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Louis d'Alton

• Author Notes

  Aistriúchán ar 'The Man in the Cloak' (1937)

• Setting

  Áit: Seomra i "Doss-House" ar Shráid Bhríde, Baile Átha Cliath. Brionglóid 'Opium'. Am: Tráthnóna Meitheamh 1849

• Synopsis

  The poet James Clarence Mangan comes to a doss house in Dublin at the height of a cholera epidemic during the famine. He falls into a opium-drugged dream which illustrates his life - his escape from a bullying father, his love for his pupil Catherine Hayes and his fall into alcoholism.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  8

• Female

  4

• Total

  12

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  12 September 1940

• Producer

  Produced by An Taibhdhearc

• Original Venue

  An Taibhdhearc
  

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón gclár don chéad léiriú agus ó Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge 1900-1970 le P Ó Siadhail.