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Hogan's Goat

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 11m

"Has the rhythms of highly charged verse, verse with a sting in its tail." - New York Herald Tribune

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 11m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1966 Drama Desk Award

Details

Summary
This Drama Desk-winning drama was first produced at New York's American Place Theatre and made a star of Faye Dunaway. A highly volatile drama in blank verse, Hogan's Goat is set in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn populated by Irish Catholic immigrants teeming with hopes of "the American Dream". The current mayor Quinn has been caught in a scandal and the time is ripe for a reform ticket. Ambitious Matthew Stanton has his eye on the mayor's chair, idolized and encouraged by his wife Kathleen. Quinn uncovers a weakness in the upstart's past however: he has not yet married Kathleen in Church because he is still legally wed to Agnes Hogan. "Aggie", Quinn's old love, now lay dying but once, as Stanton's mistress, had helped him to his first political success. When Quinn plays this hand, Stanton loses the race and blinded by rage, lashes out at Kathleen, bringing both to a tragic end.
History

Hogan's Goat premiered at the American Place Theatre in New York City in November 1965 under the direction of Frederick Rolf.

Cast Attributes
MATTHEW STANTON - leader of the Sixth Ward of Brooklyn.
KATHLEEN STANTON - his wife.
EDWARD QUINN - Mayor of Brooklyn.
FATHER STANISLAUS COYNE - Pastor of St. Mary Star of the Sea.
JAMES "PALSY" MURPHY - Boss of the city of Brooklyn.
JOHN "BLACK JACK" HAGGERTY - Assistant Ward Leader.
MARIA HAGGERTY - his wife, the Stantons' janitor.
JOSEPHINE FINN - Maria Haggerty's niece.
PETEY BOYLE - a hanger-on of Stanton's.
BESSIE LEGG - a back-room girl.
ANN MULCAHY - Father Coyne's housekeeper 
BOYLAN - a policeman.
BILL - a hanger-on of Quinn's.
A PRIEST
A DECKAHND
A DOCTOR
CONSTITUENTS
  • Time Period Victorian (British and American)
  • Setting Brooklyn, 1890.

Media

REVIEWS

"Has the rhythms of highly charged verse, verse with a sting in its tail." - New York Herald Tribune

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

William Alfred

William Alfred  was a playwright and Professor of English literature at Harvard University. Alfred was a specialist in early English literature. He was chairman of Harvard's Standing Committee on Dramatics for many years, and he taught a course in playwriting. His lyrical pla ...
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