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'''See ''[[Mr McConkey's Suitcase]]'''''
 
'''See ''[[Mr McConkey's Suitcase]]'''''
 
== The original text ==
 
 
One of Aron's "Irish" plays, it deals with the efforts of a daughter to escape her mother’s stifling influence, which come to fruition when a defrocked priest arrives to lodge in their boarding-house. 
 
 
First published in the collection ''[[Seven Plays and Four Monologues]]'' (Aron, 1985).
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1977: First performed as part of a ''Triple Bill'' with ''[[The Shrinking of Alby Chapman]]'' and ''[[Bar and Ger]]'' in the [[Baxter Theatre]] Studio in 1977. Directed by [[Glynn Day]], starring [[Pippa Duffy]], [[Glynn Day]], [[Rita Zazeraj]], [[Lynn Banner]], [[Dermod Judge]], [[Chris McWilliams]], [[Erica Benn]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
[[Geraldine Aron|Aron, Geraldine]]. 1985. ''[[Seven Plays and Four Monologues]]''
 
 
[[Brian Barrow]] and [[Yvonne Williams-Short]] (eds.). 1988. ''Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987''.
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Aron
 
 
http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MTE3OQ==
 
 
Astbury, 1979
 
 
Gosher, 1988
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
  
 
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