Autumn Fire
by T. C. Murray
by T. C. Murray
Autumn Fire is a 1924 Irish tragedy that explores the turmoil faced by a widowed farmer when his passionate love for a much younger woman leads to conflict with his family and community.
About The Play
About The Play
THE ENTIRE RUN IS NOW SOLD OUT
including the extra matinees on
Mondays 12 and 19 March 2012 at 2.00pm
Following the huge sell-out success of our recent productions of rediscovered Irish drama – Mixed Marriage by St John Ervine and Drama at Inish by Lennox Robinson – we present the first professional production in the UK for 80 years of the starkly tragic Autumn Fire, the classic 1924 Irish tragedy by T.C. Murray.
Rural Ireland, the 1920s. Farmer Owen Keegan, a middle aged widower with two grown up children, is famed throughout the county for his strength and vigour. When he falls in love with Nance Desmond, an attractive young woman half his age, he must fight the disapproval and hostility of his neighbours and relatives, as the lives of Owen, Nance, and Owen’s son and daughter are torn apart by his passion.
Autumn Fire was first seen at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1924 starring Sara Allgood, F.J. McCormack and Barry Fitzgerald. It was subsequently seen in both the West End and on Broadway, and was last seen in London at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, in 1931.