OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Seán Tóibín 

• Adapted / Translated From

  John Millington (J.M.) Synge

• Author Notes

  Aistrithe ó "Riders to the Sea" (1904)

• Setting

  Oileán mara, iarthar na h-Éireann.

• 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

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  17 December 1923

• Producer

  Produced by An Comhar Drámaíochta

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

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