{{Short description|Play written by Paul Vincent Carroll}} {{italic title}} '''''The White Steed''''' is a play in three acts written in 1939 by [[Paul Vincent Carroll]]. It won the 1939 [[New York Drama Critics' Circle]] award for Best Foreign Play.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards Past Winners|url=https://www.dramacritics.org/dc_pastawards.html |access-date=31 January 2025 |website=New York Drama Critics' Circle|language=en}}</ref>
==Setting== The setting of the play is the present-day village of [[Lorcan]], [[County Louth]], [[Ireland]].
==Original cast== The show was performed at the [[Cort Theatre]] and then moved to the [[John Golden Theatre]]. It ran all together for 136 performances. It was staged by [[Hugh Hunt]], scenic design by Watson Barratt, general manager was Saul Abraham, and produced by [[Eddie Dowling]].
{{Div col}} *Florence Barratt as Meg Megee *Leslie Bingham as Rosieanne *[[Roland Bottomley]] as Donnacaidh McGoilla Phadraig *[[George Coulouris]] as Father Shaughnessy *[[Ralph Cullinan]] as Phelim Fintry *Thomas P. Dillon as Inspector Toomey *[[Barry Fitzgerald]] as Canon Matt Lavelle *Elizabeth Malone as Brigid Brodigan *Grace Mills as Sarah Hearty *Farrell Pelly as Patrick Hearty *[[Liam Redmond]] as Denis Dillon *[[Jessica Tandy]] as Nora Fintry *[[Tom Tully]] as Michael Shivers {{Div col end}}
==Later performances== ''The White Steed'' was presented on the televised series [[The Play of the Week|Play of the Week]] in 1959.
==References== {{Reflist}} * [http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=12414 At the Internet Broadway Data Base]
{{DEFAULTSORT:White Steed}} [[Category:1939 plays]]
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