The play originally opened at Abbey Theater, Dublin, Ireland in 1990. It opened on Broadway in New York City on October 11, 1991 and closed on October 25, 1992 after 436 performances. In the cast were Brid Brennan, who originated her role as Agnes and won 1992 Tony award as Best Featured Actress, and Gerard McSorley as the adult Michael, the narrator in the movie. The play also won a 1992 Tony award as best play.
This movie takes place in August 1936.
During filming, the cast, including Meryl Streep, stayed at the Highlands Hotel in the village of Glenties, Donegal. The hotel is owned by relatives of Mark Flood.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "a luminous cast reveals long-buried feelings. Meryl Streep finds the expansive soul behind prim schoolteacher Kate. And she is matched by Kathy Burke's bawdy Maggie, Brid Brennan's secretive Agnes, Sophie Thompson's slow-witted Rose and Catherine McCormack's bold Christina, who never married the father of her son."
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