Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Harry Sinton Gibson 

• Suíomh

  The sitting room behind the shop of Joseph Cunningham, in the town of Cloughmany in Northern Ireland, in November 1930.

• Achoimre

  J.C Cunningham, shopkeeper, turns hard and bitter when his father bequeathes the substantial family fortune to his sister Sarah, and leaves the shop business only to him. Determined to make sons George and Dick upstanding members of the community and the Calvinist church to which they belong, he thwarts George's ambition to become a horse-trainer, and decides that Dick will become a minister. As each rebels in their own way, wife Mary quietly despairs, and as the years go by the house becomes one of misery. J.C.'s refusal to change results in the slow collapse of the business, but as the facts of this emerge, Mary finds her voice. Through her efforts, a glimmer of hope presents itself for the future.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  9

• Female

  4

• Total

  13

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  04 September 1950

• Leiriú

  Produced by Ulster Group Theatre

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Group Theatre
  

Foinse Eolais

Information for this entry has come from the original production programme and the printed play script, held at the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.