Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Donagh MacDonagh 

• Achoimre

  Based on the tale of Deirdre from the Ulster Cycle without the lyricism of Synge or Yeats Deirdre plays. In this version Deirdre has now become the Lady Spider, the creature that consumes her mates, a Deirdre who, when Naoise is treacherously slain, is prepared to live so that she can suck the marrow from Conor's brittle bones. The action takes place in a forest in Ulster, near Armagh on an early spring morning, near the Court of King Conor MacNessa, among sandhills on the coast of Scotland on an Autumn afternoon and at Conor MacNessa's hunting lodge, near Dundalk.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  12

• Female

  4

• Total

  16

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  15 September 1959

• Leiriú

  Produced by Orion Productions In association with Dublin Theatre Festival

• Nótaí faoin Ionad

  First presented at The Gas Company Theatre, Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin

Foinse Eolais

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