Published by The Poetry Center, N.Y., 1960
Seller: G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Condition: Very Good. 2 sheets, 14" x 8.5"; mimeographed on one side, stapled at upper left corner. Four of the five plays in the cycle represented in the program on first page: The Green Helmet; On Baile's Strand; Only Jealousy of Emer; Death of Cuchulain. Actors: Tom Makem, Patrick Clancy, Tom Clancy, Roscoe Browne, Laine Gardner, Sara Farwell, Byron Russell, John Cole, Pauline Flanagan. Second page, entitled 'Yeats', and introducing The Speaker (presumably O'Connor) introduces Yeats, and the plays. Moderate age toning to edges; 3 horizontal fold creases. It must have been quite an evening at 92nd & Lexington. Frank O'connor, friend of Yeats, after a decade of literary acclaim in the United States, and a cast in various stages of successful careers on and off Broadway, in film, television, and music. There they were, with a strong Irish strain, acting out the allegories of Yeats's life and alter ego Cuchulain.