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Mount Prospect

A tragedy in three acts by Elizabeth Connor.

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Elizabeth Connor 

  • Suíomh

    The entire action of the play takes place in the drawing-room of Mount Prospect in Bridgetown, from spring in one year, to the following spring, to autumn later that year.

  • Achoimre

    Connor's first play, adapted from her novel of the same name, reveals the character of a destructive widow who uses her husband's will to advance her own son over two children from her husband's first marriage.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Méid na Fóirne ( Fireann)

    4

  • Méid na Fóirne (Baineann)

    8

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Mrs Kennefick Ria Mooney
Winnie Sullivan Kitty Thuillier
Rex Kennefick Charles Blair
Mrs Clancy Christine Hayden
Peter Denis O'Dea
Ned Cronin F J McCormick
Miss Chapp Gertrude Quinn
Mary Bríd Ní Loinsigh (1)
Kit Cronin Eileen Crowe
Mrs. Sullivan May Craig
Mr Horsham Michael J. Dolan
Annie Maura Lane
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Frank Dermody
Anne Yeats
Léirithe ag Frank Dermody
Bainisteoir Stáitse Cecil Ford
Siúinéir J F Barlow

Scripteanna Neamhfhoilsithe

  • Contact

    National Library of Ireland (Manuscripts Department)

  • Seoladh

    Kildare Street
    Dublin 2
    Republic of Ireland

  • Guthán

    +353 1 6030200

  • Ríomhphost

    info@nli.ie

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.nli.ie

Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Gan Aimsiú

Foinse Eolais

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 and from the National Library.