OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Neil Donnelly 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Kenneth Sawyer Goodman

• Setting

  A country cottage, early 1900s

• Synopsis

  A beggar is turned away from a house on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day a stranger arrives and questions the occupants as to why they have sent the beggar away empty handed when they profess to be a Christians. An adaption of Dust of the Road, a play by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman (1912).

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  1

• Total

  4

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  January 1972

• Venue Notes

  The play was performed at a temporary summer theatre in Livingstone Manor, New York.

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