Sive was John B Keanes's first play and is now, the 50th anniversary of its first production, an established classic.The play is set in a remote area of North Kerry in the fifties and is a superb study of mid - century rural Ireland, a classic morality tale about the consequences of greed and bitterness. It tells the story of the promise in marriage of the young and beautiful Sive to an old man, highlighting the eternal themes of youth and age, wealth and poverty and good and evil.