Overview
Character Name
Chorus of keening women
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult, Elderly
Role Size
Ensemble
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Contralto
Vocal Range
High Note: G5
Low Note: A#3/Bb3
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
Aran Islands, Inishmaan, Ireland, 1900
Analysis
The practice of ‘keening’ is a specific mourning ritual performed by women in Ireland lamenting the dead. When Bartley’s body is returned to Maurya, the keening women accompany it. The ensemble also includes some solo lines, one indicated as the character of ‘A Woman’, who
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