OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Pádraicín Ní Mhaoláin  Nóra Ní Raghallaigh 

• Adapted / Translated From

  John Millington (J.M.) Synge

• Author Notes

  Aistrithe ó 'Riders To The Sea'.

• Setting

  Oileán ar chósta iarthair na hÉireann.

• Synopsis

  After nine days of constant grieving for her missing son, Michael, who, she feels certain, has been drowned, Maurya has fallen into a fitful sleep. Her daughter, Cathleen, is busy with household tasks, when another daughter, Nora, slips quietly into the kitchen with a bundle given her by the young priest. It contains part of the clothes taken from the body of a drowned man far in the north. They have been sent to Maurya's cottage with a view to possible identification.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  6

• Total

  9

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  09 February 1959

• Producer

  Produced by An Damer

• Original Venue

  The Damer Hall/An Damer
  

Source Of Information

Fuarthas an t-eolas seo ón gclár don chéad léiriú agus ó Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge 1900-1970 le P Ó Siadhail.