OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  G.P. Gallivan 

• Setting

  Set in Dublin before, during and immediately after the Easter Rising in 1916.

• Synopsis

  Easter 1916 - Dublin. The rising is about to explode into the pages of Irish history and G. P. Gallivan's effort to humanise the leaders of the rising, explores how the idealist republican thinking affected people at the time. One family, thoroughly steeped in republican traditions are thrown into a strange world, when their prodigal son returns, having joined up with the British Army.

• Play Type

  Plays General

• Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  8

• Cast Size Female

  3

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  17 March 1959

• Producer Notes

  By arrangement with the Arts Council.

• Production

  Produced by The Globe Theatre Company and Longford Productions

• Original Venue

  Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.