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To-day And Yesterday

A comedy in three acts by WD Hepenstall

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    WD Hepenstall 

  • Suíomh

    The drawingroom in Dunbawn on an evening in April, and on the following two afternoons.

  • Nótaí

    Joint prize-winning play (with Mount Prospect) in Abbey competition

  • Achoimre

    Tells the tale of a reduced squire's attempts to rescue himself, and his equally broke mother, from the indebtedness in which they find themselves.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    7

  • Female

    6

  • Total

    13

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
Mrs O'Callaghan Ria Mooney
Sylvester Spillane William O'Gorman
Virginia Carmody Joan Plunkett
Mr O'Callaghan P.H. Considine
Tony Fleming Cecil Ford
Ellen Kathleen Murphy
Major Patrick Loftus Denis O'Dea
Sir Hiram De Frayne F J McCormick
Geraldine Loftus Sheila Manahan
Mrs Loftus Eileen Crowe
John Carmody Michael J. Dolan
Desmond Carmody James Dunne
Foireann Léirithe
Anne Yeats
Léirithe ag Frank Dermody
Bainisteoir Stáitse Udolphus Wright
Siúinéir J F Barlow

Scripteanna Neamhfhoilsithe

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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 and the Abbey Theatre archive.