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Fand

A Play in Verse, in Two Acts

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 

  • Achoimre

    The play opens with Cuchulain in a slumber from which his wife Emer is unable to wake him. The Fand, the fairy goddess, appears and falls in love with Cuchulain, who reciprocates. Emer realises that Cuchulain no longer favours her while Fand's husband, the Storm God, then appears to reclaim his wife. On her departure she leaves Cuchulain a magical cloak as a token of her love for him.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Cast size

  • Male

    5

  • Female

    5

  • Total

    10

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Cuchulain Frank Fay
Attendant Annie Allgood
Attendant Brigid O'Dempsey
Eithne Maire Ní Gharbhaigh
Emer Sara Allgood
Lugaid J A O'Rourke
Laeg J M Kerrigan
Conchobar Arthur Sinclair
Fand Máire O'Neill (1)
Laeghaire Ernest Vaughan
Foireann Léirithe  
Ceol Arthur Darley
Léirithe ag Iden Payne

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Fand Of The Fair Cheek: A Three-Act Tragedy in Rhymed Verse

  • Bliain

    1904

  • Foilsithe ag

    Publisher not found

  • 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 and a biographical note on Blunt from Encyclopedia Britanica.