Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Arthur Power 

• Suíomh

  Interior of a Slum in Dublin. Period - 1724.

• Achoimre

  The play deals with the Wood ha'pence episode, or at least a fictional story thereof, where a young slum-dweller, Mary-Bridget, comes to know the identity of the infamous author of the Drapier Letters (Dean Swift) and is tragically killed as soldiers storm her room in search of the man himself.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Aon-ghníomh

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  5

• Total

  9

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  22 August 1927

• Nótaí faoin Léiriú

  "One of the chief wants of Ireland in that day (1724) was that of small currency adapted to the daily transactions of life...and a patent for supplying Ireland with a copper coinage was accorded to William Wood on such terms that the profit accruing from the difference between the intrinsic and the nominal value of the coins, about 40%, was mainly divided between him and George I's favourite Duchess of Kendal....Swift now had his opportunity, and the famous six letters signed M.B. Drapier soon set Ireland in flame. Every effort was used to discover the author, or rather to obtain legal evidence against the author, whom, Walpole was assured, it would have taken ten thousand men to apprehend. None could be procured; the public passion swept everything before it; the patent was cancelled, Wood was compensated by a pension, and Swift was raised to a height of popularity which he retained for the rest of his life."

• Leiriú

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Foinse Eolais

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