The old and young kings were played by the following: R. Nash, A. Power, U. Wright, E. Keegan, Emma Vernon, Dora Gunning, Sara Algood. It was necessary to put women into men’s parts owing to the smallness of our company at that time.
The play was revived by the National Theatre Society, Ltd., in a somewhat altered version at Oxford, Cambridge, and London a few months later. I then entirely rewrote it up to the entrance of the Young Man, and changed it a good deal from that on to the end, and this new version was played at the Abbey Theatre for the first time in April, 1906.
The first version of The Shadowy Waters was first performed on January 14th, 1904, in the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, with the following players in the principal parts:
| Forgael | Frank Fay |
| Aibric | Seumus O’Sullivan |
| Dectora | Maire ni Shiubhlaigh |
Its production was an accident, for in the first instance I had given it to the company that they might have some practice in the speaking of my sort of blank verse until I had a better play finished. It played badly enough from the point of view of any ordinary playgoer, but pleased many of my friends; and as I had been in America when it was played, I got it played again privately, and gave it to Miss Farr for a Theosophical Convention, that I might discover how to make a better play of it. I then completely rewrote it in the form that it has in the text of this book, but this version had once again to be condensed and altered for its production in Dublin, 1906. Mr. Sinclair took the part of Aibric, and Miss Darragh that of Dectora, while Mr. Frank Fay was Forgael as before. It owed a considerable portion of what success it met with both in its new and old form to a successful colour scheme and to dreamy movements and intonations on the part of the players. The scenery for its performance in 1906 was designed by Mr. Robert Gregory.
Deirdre was first played at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on November 27th, 1906, with Miss Darragh as Deirdre, Mr. Frank Fay as Naisi, Mr. Sinclair as Fergus, Mr. Kerrigan as Conchubar, and Miss Sara Algood, Miss McNeill, and Miss O’Dempsey as the Musicians. The scenery was by Mr. Robert Gregory.
Volume 3
Table of Contents
THE MUSIC FOR USE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE PLAYS.
ON BAILE’S STRAND. THE FOOL’S SONG.
ON BAILE’S STRAND.—SONG OF THE WOMEN.
DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —II.
DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —III. Farr.
DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —III. ALLGOOD.
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “The Airy Bachelor.”
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “Johnnie Gibbons.”
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “The Lion shall lose his strength.”