New Comedies

Produced by Juliet Sutherland and Robert Prince
New Comedies
By Lady Gregory
The Bogie Men—The Full Moon—Coats Darmer's Gold—McDonough's Wife
Taig O'Harragha | BOTH CHIMNEY Darby Melody | SWEEPS
Scene: A Shed near where a coach stops. Darby comes in. Has a tin can of water in one hand, a sweep's bag and brush in the other. He lays down bag on an empty box and puts can on the floor. Is taking a showy suit of clothes out of bag and admiring them and is about to put them on when he hears some one coming and hurriedly puts them back into the bag .
Taig: (At door.) God save all here!
Darby: God save you. A sweep is it? (Suspiciously.) What brought you following me?
Taig: Why wouldn't I be a sweep as good as yourself?
Darby: It is not one of my own trade I came looking to meet with. It is a shelter I was searching out, where I could put on a decent appearance, rinsing my head and my features in a tin can of water.
Taig: Is it long till the coach will be passing by the cross-road beyond?
Darby: Within about a half an hour they were telling me.