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The Canavans

A Comedy in Three Acts

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Lady Gregory 

  • Suíomh

    Irish Village in Elizabethan times

  • Achoimre

    A miller, Peter Canavan, struggles to stay away from the gallows as the return of his brother Anthony, a deserter from the Queen's army, brings trouble upon him.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    3

  • Female

    2

  • Total

    5

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Widow Deeny Máire O'Neill (1)
Captain Headley Arthur Sinclair
Antony Canavan J A O'Rourke
Peter Canavan W.G. Fay
Widow Greely Brigid O'Dempsey

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Irish Folk History Plays Vol. 2/ by Lady Gregory

  • Bliain

    1912

  • Foilsithe ag

    Putnam, G.P.

  • Seoladh

    London
    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.