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Shadow and Substance

A Play in Four Acts by Paul Vincent Carroll

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Paul Vincent Carroll 

  • Suíomh

    The Scene is laid in the dining-room of Canon Skerritt's Parochial House in Ardmahone, one of the small towns lying round the feet of the Mourne hills in County Louth, Ireland.
    It is February.

  • Nótaí

    Programme note: The Legend connected with St. Brigid relates how in order to escape the attentions of persistant suitors, she disfigured the loveliness of her face at Faughart, her birthplace, near Dundalk.

  • Achoimre

    A play exploring how the established Church has, like every institution, moved away from its founding beliefs. This spiritual decline is highlighted when presented in contrast to the purity of faith practised by a young girl.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    6

  • Female

    4

  • Total

    10

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Brigid Phyllis Ryan
Martin Mullahone P.J. Carolan
Very Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt Arthur Shields
Father Kirwan Austin Meldon
Francis Ignatius O'Connor W. O'Gorman
Rosey Violet Maureen Delaney
Father Corr Fred Johnson
Miss Jemima Cooney Ria Mooney
Dermot Francis O'Flingsley Cyril Cusack
Thomasina Concannon Aideen O'Connor
Foireann Léirithe  
Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Stiúrthóir Ceoil F.M. May
Léirithe ag Hugh Hunt

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    An Scáth agus an Amhmhaoin

  • Bliain

    1945

  • Foilsithe ag

    An Gúm

  • Seoladh

    Foras na Gaeilge, 7 Cearnóg Mhuirfean
    Baile Átha Cliath 2
    Baile Átha Cliath
    Republic of Ireland

  • Guthán

    1850 325 325 / 0845 309 8142 (TÉ)

  • Ríomhphost

    eolas@forasnagaeilge.ie

  • Teideal

    Five great modern Irish plays : 'The playboy of the Western world', by John M. Synge; 'Juno and the Paycock', by Sean O'Casey; 'Riders to the sea', by John M. Synge; 'Spreading the news', by Lady Gregory; 'Shadow and Substance', by Paul Vincent Carroll /

  • Bliain

    1941

  • Foilsithe ag

    Random House

  • Seoladh

    New York
    USA

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Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Críoch

    All Territories

  • Cinéal Cearta

    All Rights

  • Teagmháil

    Helena Carroll

  • Seoladh

    Apt No 480 The Whitby Apartments
    325 West 45th Street
    New York
    USA

  • Guthán

    001 212 246 0430 ext 418

Foinse Eolais

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