OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Michael Harding 

• Setting

  An lá atá inniu ann (1994) agus lár na tíre (1922).

• Synopsis

  The play sketches two stories, the first of a young woman wedded by IRA men who falls in love with a young and beautiful farm labourer. He knows too much and meets a brutal fate. The second story takes us back to 1922 with Michael Collins on the loose in the country and prone to fall in love with a young man who is the slave and lover of a Houdini-like illusionist in the middle of nowhere. It is a portrayal of a type of male heroism which is homoerotic but also self-destructive.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  2

• Total

  7

• Cast Notes

  Is féidir dúbláil a dhéanamh.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  24 November 1994

• Producer

  Produced by Amharclann de hÍde

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Ar stáitse na Péacóige a léiríodh an dráma seo.

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