This play imagines the time in Brian Merriman's life immediately before he wrote his famous poem The Midnight Court. De Fréine introduces readers to characters from his local neighbourhood and explores the ways in which these people and their deeds inspired him to write.

Brian Merriman wrote The Midnight Court in or around 1780. This play imagines the time in his life immediately before he laid pen to paper. In it we meet characters from his local neighbourhood, and it is given to understand that it is the neighbourhood, its people and their deeds, that inspire the poet to undertake this unique work.