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The Crossing

A Play in One Act

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  • Drámadóir

    Con O'Leary 

  • Suíomh

    A lodging house.

  • Achoimre

    Forced out of her home as a result of her son's heinous crime, Mary the Roads seeks refuge in a local lodging house. Here she finds Matthew, a balladeer, rehearsing the song he is to sing at her son's execution. Fenton, the innkeeper wishes to turn them out as he does not want his brother to find them there; indeed, when his brother does eventually appear he accuses Fenton of disgracing the house. The chapel bell tolls and Mary, believing her son to have been executed, dies of a broken heart.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Aon-ghníomh

    • Cast size

  • Male

    3

  • Female

    1

  • Total

    4

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Thomas Fenton Fred O'Donovan (1)
William Fenton Arthur Sinclair
Matthew J M Kerrigan
Mary Nora Desmond
Foireann Léirithe  
Léirithe ag Andrew Patrick Wilson

Scripteanna Neamhfhoilsithe

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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.