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Peter Pedagogue

A play in two acts and a prologue.

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Ralph A. Meredith 

  • Achoimre

    An idealistic young man, Peter Dunlop, discovers through hard experience that instead of creating a brave new world, he himself is shaped by life into the old, standard mould. As he passes from schoolboy to elderly schoolmaster, Peter endures a series of conflicts which test his mettle and his soul.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    17

  • Female

    4

  • Total

    21

  • Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

    Cast list also specifies an unquantified number of "pupils, undergraduates and coffinbearers".

Céad Léiriú

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
George Jack McQuoid
Soldier E. Horrobin
Schoolmaster Mervyn Patterson
Mr. James J.B. Harris
Mr. Maxwell E.E. O'Neill
Headmaster A.S.G. Loxton
New Boy Dennis Leighton
Policeman J. Murphy
Sceneshifter W.R. McAlpine
Drummer V. Williamson
Grandmother Jean Hamilton
Producer F. Berun
Peter Dunlop W.A. Stewart
Mammom William Campfield
Hanna Carswell Cicely Mathews
Grandfather Christie Gilbert
Aged Man Christie Gilbert
Nellie Carswell Kay Irwin
Teddy Harry Corbett
Elsie Hettie Haddock
Sceneshifter R. Davidson
Foireann Léirithe
Léirithe ag W.R. Gordon

Scripteanna Neamhfhoilsithe

Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Gan Aimsiú

Foinse Eolais

Information for this entry was taken from the company programme, held at Belfast's Linen Hall Library Theatre Archive, and from press cuttings sourced for this project.