| The Old Lady Says No! |
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| | | Sub Title |
| | A romantic play with choral interludes, in two parts, by E.W. Tocher |
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| | | AUTHOR |
| | Denis Johnston |
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| | | Notes |
| | Johnston's play was first entitled 'Shadowdance' and submitted to the Abbey. Yeats sent it back to him with 'The Old Lady Says 'No!'' scrawled on it, so the author re-titled it and sent it to the Gate. |
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| | | Setting |
| | The action of the play opens in the garden of 'The Priory', the home of John Philpot Curran, close to Rathfarnham on the night of the 25th August, 1803. |
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| | | Synopsis |
| | Johnston's satire on the state of post-independence Irish society. It opens with a ridiculously over-the-top pastiche of a Robert Emmett play that mocks the cod-romantic melodramas of Boucicault. The actor playing Emmett gets a bang on the head and awakes believing he really is Emmett. He then is led through the streets of 1920s Ireland and is shocked to see the hypocrisy of modern politics and the petty materialism of the populace at large. |
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| | | PLAY TYPE |
| | Plays General |
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| | | Number of Acts |
| | Full-Length |
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| | | Cast Size Male |
| | 10 |
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| | | Cast Size Female |
| | 10 |
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| | | Date of First Production |
| | 3 July 1929 |
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| | | Production |
| | Produced by Edwards-Mac Liammoir Gate Theatre Productions |
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| | | ORIGINAL VENUE |
| | Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach |
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| | | Venue Notes |
| | Performed on the Peacock Stage. |
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 | | | The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme. | |
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