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An Chomhairle Ealaíon Playography In English

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The Man in the Cloak

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Louis d'Alton 

  • Suíomh

    A Doss House in Bride Street, Dublin. An Opium Dream.
    Time: an evening in June 1849

  • Achoimre

    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 replays the course of his own life - his escape from a bullying father, his love for his pupil Catherine Hayes and his fall into alcoholism.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Méid na Fóirne ( Fireann)

    10

  • Méid na Fóirne (Baineann)

    4

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
James Clarence Mangan Cyril Cusack
A Messenger P.H. Considine
Laurence Tighe Tom Purefoy
Blythe J. Winter
Catherine Hayes Shelah Richards
Marty Phelan W. O'Gorman
Cis Carmody Sheila Ward
Bridie Gilheaney Josephine Fitzgerald
James Mangan Fred Johnson
Con Colgan Seamus Healy
Kate Mangan Ann Clery
Mick Fogarty Eric Gorman
A Doctor Cecil Barror
John Mangan Malachi Keegan
Foireann Léirithe  
Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Léirithe ag Hugh Hunt

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Two Irish plays; The man in the cloak, The mousetrap, by Louis L. D'Alton.

  • Bliain

    1938

  • Foilsithe ag

    Macmillan and Co.

  • Seoladh

    London
    England

Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Gan Aimsiú

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the published play text and from press cuttings of the time.