OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Chloe Gibson  Adrian Vale 

• Adapted / Translated From

  
  Tranlsated and adapted from The original by Marcelle Maurette.

• Setting

  The Carmel at Lisieux, August 1911.

• Synopsis

  A papal commission is sent to examine whether or not, Therese Martin, a young Carmelite nun, is deserving of the designation of 'heroic'. Five of their witnesses have failed to recognise in her anything more exalted than a gentle acceptance of suffering. One member of the commission is troubled by these statements and recalls the five to rehear their accounts and this forms the core of the play.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation

• Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  5

• Cast Size Female

  17

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  23 September 1963

• Producer Notes

  Produced by York Promotions by arrangement with Stanley Illsley and Leo McCabe.

• Production

  Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival

• Original Venue

  Olympia Theatre

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

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