OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde) 

• Setting

  Coill

• Notes

  Léiríodh an dráma seo don chéad uair i ngáirdín George Moore (AE)ar Phlás Ely ar an 19 Bealtaine 1902. Bhí an t-údar mar 'An Tincéar' ann agus Sinéad Bean de Valera mar 'An tSídheog'. George Moore féin a bhí ina stiurthóir ar an dráma.

• Synopsis

  An ugly old fairy, weeping and desperate, meets a young man in the woods and begs him to kiss her. He refuses, disgusted. She then asks the same of a young farmer and is refused again. The fairy has been placed under a curse by the Queen of the Fairies and is doomed to die before sunfall unless she manages to get a human man to kiss her willingly. Enter a scruffy tinker, a song in his heart and a bottle in his hand, without a worry in the world. He agrees to kiss the hag; no sooner has he done so than she sheds her wrinkled old skin and reveals herself as beautiful young woman. The couple fall in love, but it is not long before the fairy hears mysterious unearthly music calling her back to her own world. She disappears, leaving her heartbroken lover behind her.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

• Cast Size Male

  3

• Cast Size Female

  1

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  1912

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ó chartlann Amharclann na Mainistreach (suíomh idirlíon)