THE BLACK MOUNTAIN nOLLEGZ PLAY~ RS
present
flShadow and SUbstance"
by
Paul Vincent Carroll
A legend connected with st Brigid relates how, in order to
escape the attentions of persistent suitors, she disfigured the
loveliness of her face at Fanghart, her birthplace, near Dundalk,
Ireland,
THE CAST CF THE PLAY
----,~- Brigid ~ Ganon Skerr1tt l s servant)----"~
Dermot Francis OtFlingsley ( a teacher)
Thomasina Concannon ( the Canonts niece)
Father Corr
Father Kirwan
Very Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt
Miss Jemima Cooney
Francis Ignatius O'Connor ( her nephew)
Martin Nlullahone
Rosey Violet ( his wife)
TEE STAFF
Jirector: Robert Wunsch
- Barbara Pollet
Bill Berry
Aurora Cassotta
Her~ y Adams
Dick Brovv- n
Will Hamlin
Nancy West
Paul Snyder
Tom Emmons
Dora Harrison
Scene design and construction: Josef Albers, Faith Murray,
Bruno Piscitello, Aurora cassotta, Bill Berry, Anatole Kopp,
Bill Reed
Costumes: Faith Murray, Johanna Jalowetz, H~ leL ~ ounsbury
Furniture: Bill Reed
Properties: Betty Kelley, Shirley Allen
THE SCENES
Act 1 : Mid- day, late in January
Act 2: Evening of the following day
Act 3: Morning, a few days later
Act 4: The following morning, February 1st
The time is the present. The action passes in the living
room of Canon Skerrittls parochial house in flArdmahone fl ,
one of the small towns lying round the feet of the Mourne
Hills in county Louth, Ireland
THE PLAY
" Shadow and Sunstance" was first produced at the Abbey Theater
in Dublin, January 25th, 1937. A recent addition to
the literary works that make up the Irish literary renaissance,
it is typical of them in its concern with the problems
of present" day IrelaLd, in its sincerity, ar. d in what George
Jean Nathan has called, its " shameless emotional candor"
