The following was recounted by Redmond O’Toole at the launch of Limerick’s 2009 Unfringed performance festival.
The gypsy girl goes to the grave of her former lover who was killed by her rich now husband, at whose hand her former lover died, and using her gypsy incantations rasies him from the dead. They dance a dance for what brought them together was that they danced well. The gypsy girl tries to convince her lover to stay above ground. They dance again. Again the gypsy girl tries to convince her lover to stay above ground. They dance a third dance. Finally the former lover decides that the place for him is below the ground, not being particularly happy that the gyspy girl is married to the man who killed him, and so returns there.
A tanda, three dances and a return to the underworld.