Black Man's Country AUTHOR Desmond Forristal Setting Set in the priests' house in Uzala, Nigeria, during the years 1967 to 1970. Synopsis For fifty years the Irish missionaries have treated Biafra almost exclusively as their own. When the Biafran Civil War broke out they found themselves rejected by the Nigerian Government and their time there was at an end. PLAY TYPE Plays General Number of Acts Full-Length Cast Size Male 6 Cast Size Female 2 Date of First Production 30 April 1974 Production Produced by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions ORIGINAL VENUE Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata Original Cast Father Anthony O'Brien Patrick Bedford Gregory Olume Fred Brobby Father Joseph Mitchell Edward Byrne The Most Reverend Maurice Fitzmaurice Christopher Casson Father Zachary Azuka Olu Jacobs Cyprian Akuta Kwesi Kay Sister Eileen Deirdre Maher Mother Gertrude Nora O'Mahony Production Team Director Hilton Edwards Set Designer Robert Heade Lighting Hilton Edwards Costumes Eileen Long General Manager Brian Tobin Stage Director Yvette Hally Stage Manager Britta Smith Sound Technician Valerie Tobin Stage Carpenter Fred West Stage Carpenter Kevin Hudson Chief Electrician Albert Cassells Chief Electrician Arthur Jones PR Patricia Turner Production secretary Mary Cannon CLICK HERE for information on script availability, production rights and translations for this play The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme. Printer friendly version