After Dark
A London melodrama featuring a bound character on railroad tracks as an approaching train threatens.
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A London melodrama featuring a bound character on railroad tracks as an approaching train threatens.
A contemporary playwright named BJJ attempts to stage Dion Boucicault’s melodrama, taking on its white characters when white actors quit. The play retells the plantation plot of inheritance, forbidden love and an auction, while interrupting it to expose theatrical racial stereotypes and the mechanics of melodrama.
After the 1798 Rising, Arrah protects her foster brother Beamish, a fugitive rebel, while her husband Shaun is arrested in his place; pardons and a daring prison escape resolve the danger.
Grimaldi, an Italian duke in disguise, protects a young actress from the condescension of wealthy society and ultimately reveals her noble birth.
Charles Courtly and his companion Dazzle travel to Oak Hall, where Charles disguises himself as Augustus Hamilton and courts Grace, who is promised to his father, Sir Harcourt. Sir Harcourt falls for the spirited Lady Gay, but attempted elopements and deceptions are interrupted; after Charles’s creditors catch up with him, Sir Harcourt accepts his son’s marriage to Grace.
Hardress Cregan secretly marries Eily O'Connor but is pressured to marry heiress Anne Chute to save his family's estate. A mistaken order leads servant Danny Mann to try to kill Eily; Myles na Coppaleen rescues her, the plot is exposed, and Eily and Hardress stay together while Anne marries Kyrle Daly.
Corsican twins Fabien and Louis can sense when the other is in danger. While Louis is in Paris, he is drawn into a duel after protecting a married woman both brothers once loved. Fabien learns of Louis’s death and kills the duellist in a sword fight, after which Louis’s ghost appears.
Hardress Cregan is secretly married to Eily, but his family’s estate is mortgaged to Corrigan, who insists that Hardress marry heiress Ann Shute. Hardress asks Eily to surrender their marriage certificate. Danny, persuaded by Corrigan’s schemes, rows Eily to a cave and demands the certificate or her life. Myles mistakes Danny for an otter and shoots him, then rescues Eily. On the morning of Hardress’s wedding, Danny confesses the plot and Myles brings Eily back alive. Hardress acknowledges her as his wife, and Corrigan’s scheme is thwarted.
On a Louisiana plantation facing foreclosure, George Peyton loves Zoe, his enslaved mixed-race cousin, but law and slavery prevent their marriage. Debt-holder McClosky seeks to own Zoe and murders a young enslaved boy; photographic evidence exposes him. After McClosky’s escape and death, Zoe takes poison, unable to imagine a life with George.
The first act begins with two owners of an inn, Janet and Davy, on their wedding night. There is a big storm when the landlord's daughter Lucy Peveryl asks Davy to accompany her to the treacherous Raby Castle to see her love, Roland. The Ruins of the Raby, as the castle is commonly referred as, are abandoned and there is a legend that some sort of demon is there and anyone who goes inside is horrified to death. Davy agrees cautiously to lead Lucy to the ruins of the Raby. They are joined by Lord Albert Clavering, Neville, Guy, Ellen, and Maude, who had all been staying at the inn. When the bridge that leads them to the castle is knocked down by the storm, they have to take shelter in the castle. There they meet a man who identifies as a puritan living in the castle. This is Alan Raby, who is the phantom demon described in the legends. Davy is suspicious, but the others are unbothered by his presence. After discovering Roland is dead, everyone is terrified as a scream is heard from Lucy's room. Lucy runs out of her room into Lord Clavering's arms and dies, appearing to have been murdered. Alan then comes out and is shot by Lord Clavering in the heart. Lord Clavering believes he has mistakenly shot a good puritan and obeys Alan's request to place his body in the moonlight. After the group leaves to return to the inn, Alan is seen resurrecting by the power of the moon. The second act is set many years later and introduces Colonel Raby, Edgar, Dr. Reese and Ada Raby. Outside the castle, Colonel Raby announces that the village citizens will assemble in the castle, where he will wed Ada Raby. Stump and Jenny are introduced as lovers who reveal that Ada had died, but was brought back to life by a mysterious creature. When she was brought back to life, she never had the same personality as before. A will from Alan Raby is discovered and there is a case of Alan Raby being caught living longer than normal under different pen names. Alan forces Ada into a marriage ceremony, but Edgar challenges him to a duel. Alan is killed in the duel, and his body is cast into a dark abyss so the moon will never bring him back to life.
Fenian fugitive Robert Ffolliott returns to Ireland to marry Arte O’Neale, but a land-seeking schemer and his police informant plot to send him back to Australia. Conn, the comic poacher known as the Shaughraun, helps Robert evade arrest and expose the villains, while the family’s other romances resolve alongside the political conflict.
A London melodrama featuring a bound character on railroad tracks as an approaching train threatens.
A contemporary playwright named BJJ attempts to stage Dion Boucicault’s melodrama, taking on its white characters when white actors quit. The play retells the plantation plot of inheritance, forbidden love and an auction, while interrupting it to expose theatrical racial stereotypes and the mechanics of melodrama.
After the 1798 Rising, Arrah protects her foster brother Beamish, a fugitive rebel, while her husband Shaun is arrested in his place; pardons and a daring prison escape resolve the danger.
Grimaldi, an Italian duke in disguise, protects a young actress from the condescension of wealthy society and ultimately reveals her noble birth.
Charles Courtly and his companion Dazzle travel to Oak Hall, where Charles disguises himself as Augustus Hamilton and courts Grace, who is promised to his father, Sir Harcourt. Sir Harcourt falls for the spirited Lady Gay, but attempted elopements and deceptions are interrupted; after Charles’s creditors catch up with him, Sir Harcourt accepts his son’s marriage to Grace.
Hardress Cregan secretly marries Eily O'Connor but is pressured to marry heiress Anne Chute to save his family's estate. A mistaken order leads servant Danny Mann to try to kill Eily; Myles na Coppaleen rescues her, the plot is exposed, and Eily and Hardress stay together while Anne marries Kyrle Daly.
Corsican twins Fabien and Louis can sense when the other is in danger. While Louis is in Paris, he is drawn into a duel after protecting a married woman both brothers once loved. Fabien learns of Louis’s death and kills the duellist in a sword fight, after which Louis’s ghost appears.
Hardress Cregan is secretly married to Eily, but his family’s estate is mortgaged to Corrigan, who insists that Hardress marry heiress Ann Shute. Hardress asks Eily to surrender their marriage certificate. Danny, persuaded by Corrigan’s schemes, rows Eily to a cave and demands the certificate or her life. Myles mistakes Danny for an otter and shoots him, then rescues Eily. On the morning of Hardress’s wedding, Danny confesses the plot and Myles brings Eily back alive. Hardress acknowledges her as his wife, and Corrigan’s scheme is thwarted.
On a Louisiana plantation facing foreclosure, George Peyton loves Zoe, his enslaved mixed-race cousin, but law and slavery prevent their marriage. Debt-holder McClosky seeks to own Zoe and murders a young enslaved boy; photographic evidence exposes him. After McClosky’s escape and death, Zoe takes poison, unable to imagine a life with George.
The first act begins with two owners of an inn, Janet and Davy, on their wedding night. There is a big storm when the landlord's daughter Lucy Peveryl asks Davy to accompany her to the treacherous Raby Castle to see her love, Roland. The Ruins of the Raby, as the castle is commonly referred as, are abandoned and there is a legend that some sort of demon is there and anyone who goes inside is horrified to death. Davy agrees cautiously to lead Lucy to the ruins of the Raby. They are joined by Lord Albert Clavering, Neville, Guy, Ellen, and Maude, who had all been staying at the inn. When the bridge that leads them to the castle is knocked down by the storm, they have to take shelter in the castle. There they meet a man who identifies as a puritan living in the castle. This is Alan Raby, who is the phantom demon described in the legends. Davy is suspicious, but the others are unbothered by his presence. After discovering Roland is dead, everyone is terrified as a scream is heard from Lucy's room. Lucy runs out of her room into Lord Clavering's arms and dies, appearing to have been murdered. Alan then comes out and is shot by Lord Clavering in the heart. Lord Clavering believes he has mistakenly shot a good puritan and obeys Alan's request to place his body in the moonlight. After the group leaves to return to the inn, Alan is seen resurrecting by the power of the moon. The second act is set many years later and introduces Colonel Raby, Edgar, Dr. Reese and Ada Raby. Outside the castle, Colonel Raby announces that the village citizens will assemble in the castle, where he will wed Ada Raby. Stump and Jenny are introduced as lovers who reveal that Ada had died, but was brought back to life by a mysterious creature. When she was brought back to life, she never had the same personality as before. A will from Alan Raby is discovered and there is a case of Alan Raby being caught living longer than normal under different pen names. Alan forces Ada into a marriage ceremony, but Edgar challenges him to a duel. Alan is killed in the duel, and his body is cast into a dark abyss so the moon will never bring him back to life.
Fenian fugitive Robert Ffolliott returns to Ireland to marry Arte O’Neale, but a land-seeking schemer and his police informant plot to send him back to Australia. Conn, the comic poacher known as the Shaughraun, helps Robert evade arrest and expose the villains, while the family’s other romances resolve alongside the political conflict.