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Shanwalla

A Play in Three Acts

Forbhreathnú

Drámadóir

Lady Gregory
Achoimre

A play about underhand attempts to drug the racehorse Shanwalla.
Cinéal Dráma

Drámaí Ginearálta

Líon na Míreanna

Dráma Fada

Cast size

Male

9
Female

3
Total

12

Céad Léiriú

Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

08 April 1915
Leiriú

Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
Second Policeman	Philip Guiry
First Policeman	Michael Conniffe
A Boy	Thomas O'Neill
Bride Scarry	Kathleen Drago
Head Constable	J A O'Rourke
Owen Connery	J M Kerrigan
Hubert Darcy	Sydney J Morgan
Lawrence Scarry	H E Hutchinson
James Brogan	Arthur Sinclair
Pat O'Malley	Fred O'Donovan (1)
First Girl	Eithne Magee
Second Girl	Ann Coppinger

Foireann Léirithe
Léirithe ag	Andrew Patrick Wilson

Scripteanna Foilsithe

Teideal

Shanwalla, by Lady Gregory
Bliain

-191
Foilsithe ag

Putnam, G.P.
Seoladh

London
England

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

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.

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