The Heather Field
Heather Field, The Author: Edward Martyn
First Performance: 1899, Dublin
Published: 1899
Genre: Trag. in 3 acts
Setting: Tyrrell's house, west coast of Ireland, 1890
Cast: 6m, 2f, 1 child (m)
Carden Tyrrell, a west of Ireland landlord, is an idealist who wants to transform a heather field on his estate into productive land. His beautiful wife Grace, whom he now regrets marrying, is alarmed at the expense and effort Tyrrell is devoting to his obsessive task. As he plunges the estate deeper into debt, Tyrrell confesses to his younger brother Miles, a law student, that he sometimes finds it difficult to distinguish between domestic reality and his dream, and tells his wife that the ‘simple barren prose’ of her mind is driving him mad. Grace summons two doctors on the pretext that her son Kit is ill, and seeks...
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