Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Dorothy Macardle 

• Suíomh

  The West of Ireland

• Nótaí

  According to Cathy Leeney (' Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939': Peter Lang, 2010), the original manuscript for 'Dark Waters' has never been found. The same is true of many of Macardle's plays, possibly, as Leeney suggests, because her personal papers were destroyed by her younger brother after her death in 1958.

• Achoimre

  Oliver Carmichael is an invalid who gradually becomes obsessed with the prophecies of familial doom set down by a long-dead ancestor in his manuscripts. One day Oliver's daughter Una sees in her mirror the haunted face of a future lover who is destined to cause her pain...

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

• Méid na Fóirne ( Fireann)

  4

• Méid na Fóirne (Baineann)

  2

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  13 September 1932

• Leiriú

  Produced by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from press cuttings and from Cathy Leeney's 2010 volume 'Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939'.