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Liam Redmond in ' ON BAILE'S STRAND'

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by W. B. Yeats
Music composed and conducted by John Buckland
Cost in order of speaking:
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The song sung by Gladys Whitred , Josephine Crombie and Olive Gregg
Production by Frederick Bradnum
On Baile's Strand, one of Yeats's first verse plays, tells of the fight between the legendary Irish hero Cuchulain and his unknown son, and of Cuchulain's death fighting the waves. The play headed the bill on the opening night of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on December 27, 1904.

Contributors

Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Sung By:
Gladys Whitred
Sung By:
Josephine Crombie
Production By:
Frederick Bradnum
Narrator:
David Laing
A Fool:
Allan McClelland
A Blind Man:
Harry Hutchinson
Cuchulain:
Liam Redmond
Conchubar:
T St John Barry
A Young King:
Ron Barron
The Young Man from Aoife's country:
Brian Haines
First Woman:
Olive Gregg
Second Woman:
Josephine Crombie
Third Woman:
Gladys Whitred
Kings::
Bryan Powley
Kings::
David Laing
Kings::
Rolf Lefebvre
Kings::
George Merritt
Kings::
Peter Howell
Kings::
George Hagan
Kings::
Edgar Norfolk

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