Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Hugh Leonard 

• Achoimre

  At a family poker session the players are confronted with their contribution to the illness of released mental patient who has just killed his former rival. The Poker Session is a sort of welcome home party for Billy Beavis, who has spent the past twelve months in an asylum. It emerges that he was admitted to the asylum after losing his mind after a similar party. The other partygoers sidle around the roots of Billy's madness, in dialogue filled with macarbre humour, until all is revealed in the final act.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  3

• Total

  6

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  23 August 1963

• Leiriú

  Produced by Dublin Theatre Festival and Gemini Productions

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata
  

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.