Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Mervyn Wall 

• Suíomh

  Act 1: The interior of Malachy Ross's cottage at the entrance to the glen of Wicklow. Evening of a December day in the 1940s. Act 2: The drawingroom of Glengesh House. Two and a half hours later. Act 3: Three quarters of an hour later.

• Achoimre

  Among a cast that includes a writer, a Communist land agent, a priest and a police officer, Billiard Corry is the only one with a clear purpose. It has to do with the division of some land in the neighbourhood, an action that drives him ultimately to his death in a mountain snow drift.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  2

• Total

  9

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  19 May 1941

• Leiriú

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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.