| 
PRODUCTION: Riders To The Sea (Drama) PRODUCTION DATE: July 1970 DIRECTED BY: Sheila Wells STAGED: The Park Centre, Burgess Hill SYNOPSIS: This one act play is set in a cottage kitchen in the Aran Isles off the west coast of Ireland. It is a sombre presentation of the anguish and resignation of Aran wives and sisters successively robbed by the sea of all their menfolk and was first performed in February I904. PLAYWRIGHT: John Millington Synge was born in I87I in Rathfarnham, now absorbed into the suburbs of south Dublin, Ireland. He died in 1909. BHTC NOTES: It is not clear whether this production was just staged for theatre club members as a one off, or ever produced for the larger general public. However, the club did enter this production in the Mid-Sussex Arts Festival that year (See Press Review 2). With no production programme yet discovered, the cast & crew details have been taken from the press reviews.
|
