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The Image

A Comedy in Three Acts
"Secretum Meum Mihi" (My secret is my own)

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Lady Gregory 

  • Suíomh

    A Village on the Headland

  • Achoimre

    A comic tale of Irish village life centring on Thomas Coppinger, a stonecutter, and his wife Mary who states from the outset how much happier she would be in America. When two whales are beached during the night, and the villagers consider that their oil is worth hatfuls of gold, it seems like all of their wishes may finally have come true...

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    5

  • Female

    2

  • Total

    7

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Malachi McNaughton Fred O'Donovan (1)
Peggy Mahon Máire O'Neill (1)
Thomas Coppinger Arthur Sinclair
Brian Hosty Sydney J Morgan
Darby Costello J M Kerrigan
Peter Mannion J A O'Rourke
Mary Coppinger Sara Allgood
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Ceoil Dr. J.F. Larchet
Radharcra Robert Gregory
R C Orpen

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    The Image

  • Bliain

    1910

  • Foilsithe ag

    G.P. Putnam's Sons

  • Seoladh

    England

Eolas Faoi Chearta

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.