Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Christie Gilbert 

• Suíomh

  Scene: the kitchen of Jane Cummins's house in Ballymacarrett, Belfast. Time: the present.

• Achoimre

  When a Belfast couple discover that their elderly neighbour has been hoarding her meagre wealth in an old stocking, they try to wrest the money from her by exerting ‘gentle’ persuasion. In the process, the woman dies of shock. Attempting to stage this as a suicide, the neighbours flee and leave the gas on in the house. When the woman’s drunken sister returns home, she strikes a match …

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Aon-ghníomh

Cast size

• Male

  1

• Female

  3

• Total

  4

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  19 January 1933

• Leiriú

  Produced by Northern Drama League

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Central Hall
  

Foinse Eolais

Information for this entry was taken from the company programme, held at Belfast's Linen Hall Library Theatre Archive, and from press cuttings sourced for this project.