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The Bonefire

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Gerard McLarnon 

  • Nótaí

    The cast and character lists for this entry are drawn from reviews of the premiere production. As such, cast size details should be taken as approximate.

  • Achoimre

    A play set on the eve of the Twelfth of July, when a bonfire is being prepared in part to celebrate the release from prison of Willie McNulty, a Protestant, who has served time for blinding Catholic neighbour John Hanna. The blinding incident, it slowly emerges, was prompted not by religious motivations, but because of a menage-a-trois between McNulty, his fiancee Vanessa Lindsay and John Hanna, with whom she has been having an affair. Meanwhile, rumour spreads that Hanna has been faking his blindness to obtain McNulty's conviction. An angry mob gathers as the bonefire is lit to obtain justice from Hanna, even as he and Vanessa are making a pact to deliberately end their lives, and the play ends in tragedy.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Cast size

  • Male

    8

  • Female

    4

  • Total

    12

  • Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

    12

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Vanessa Lindsay Margaret D'Arcy
Kevin McAllinden Colin Blakely
Lindsay James Boyce
Mrs. McCombe Irene Bingham
James Mitchell J.G. Devlin
Mrs. Jefferson Elizabeth Begley
McNulty Harold Goldblatt
Willy McNulty Denys Hawthorne
Davy James Ellis
Jim Hanna Maurice O'Callaghan
Mrs. Hanna Catherine Gibson
Sam Kyle A. Anonymous
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Tyrone Guthrie

Scripteanna Neamhfhoilsithe

  • Contact

    Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of Northern Ireland

  • Seoladh

    The Linen Hall Library, 17 Donegall Square North
    Belfast BT1 5GB
    Northern Ireland

Eolas Faoi Chearta

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Foinse Eolais

Information for this entry was taken from press cuttings, and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.