The play's lack of action and use of music (provided by her sister Charlotte) created moments of "picturesque stillness" on stage suggestive of the "tableaux vivant" which Milligan mounted on tour for the Gaelic League. At one such moment, John O'Leary, provided "an extraordinary uniting of past and present, legendary and historical.". "The Freeman's Journal" reported that the Fenian chief, veteran of the 1867 Rising, "favoured the authoress by appearing [on stage] amongst the band of warriors [Fianna] feasting at the banquet board".