Three Plays: Many Young Men of Twenty / Moll / The Chastititute, John B. Keane

Many Young Men of Twenty is a musical play which deals with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants' longing for home. Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery. 'When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother'. The Chastitute tells the story of John Bosco, a bachelor farmer. All he is searching for is a plain decent woman to share his life. This plays tells of his many endeavours to find a mate and the end result.