Gone Tomorrow & The Workhouse Ward by Lady Augusta Gregory (Comedy)
Directed by Linda Kalturnyk
Gone Tomorrow is a hilarious study of an Irish-American family waiting for an aged uncle to die so that they can divvy up whatever money he might have saved. The aged uncle, however, is a contrary old harp who vehemently declines to go on his last journey until he is darn good and ready. Harrity’s knowledge of the Irish enables him to write a rib-tickling comedy that is in the best Abbey Theatre tradition.
Lady Isabella Gregory was a leader of the renaissance in Irish literature that occurred around the turn of the 20th century. Her one-act play, The Workhouse Ward, portrays the argumentative but close relationship of two old men living in an Irish workhouse. When one of them is offered a place to live with a relative, he chooses to remain in the workhouse rather than be separated from his friend.
