J.M. SYNGE’S

THE SYNGE TRIPTYCH

RIDERS TO THE SEA | IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN | THE TINKER’S WEDDING

October 2 - November 3, 2019

Three of Synge’s celebrated short plays will be performed in one evening. An older husband pretends that he is dead in order to test his younger wife’s fidelity in a black comedy, “In the Shadow of the Glen.” In “The Tinker’s Wedding,” A gypsy woman tries to find respectability by convincing a local priest to marry her to her sweetheart, only to find that marriage can be an expensive and soul-compromising business. And in his finest tragedy, “Riders to the Sea,” Synge depicts a family’s hopeless and fatal struggle to make a living off the impersonal but relentlessly cruel sea.

RUn time: 2 hours and 15 minutes including 2 intermissions

REVIEWS

“Buttressed by Irish folk songs, this is an evening that celebrates the common people of Ireland’s rural and remote locales…the ensemble allows Synge’s rich writing to land front and center.”