Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Johnny Hanrahan 

• Nótaí Faoin Údar

  Based on Maupassant's comic short story, The House of Madam Tellier.

• Suíomh

  Set in a small dockside brothel

• Achoimre

  Madam T and her girls entertain local worthies in her genteel parlour, offering the promise and the glimpse of the erotic and the exotic. An improvised family evolves in this place where private desires and pain are embraced in an atmosphere of tea, illicit sex and sympathy. When Madam T is asked to revisit her own country family as communion sponsor for her niece, her entire entourage decamps to her home village.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Amharclannaíocht Oirfide
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  8

• Total

  15

• Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

  The original production also featured a large local chorus. The part of Constance was played on alternate nights by two actors.

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  21 April 2005

• Nótaí faoin Léiriú

  Presented as part of Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture in association with Cork Operaworks.

• Leiriú

  Produced by Meridian Theatre Company

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  The Everyman
  

Foinse Eolais

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