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Deirdre flees with Naoise, son of Usna, rather than become the aging King Conchubor's queen. After seven years in exile, the couple accept the king's offer to return; Naoise is killed, and Deirdre takes her own life beside him.
A three-act German opera by Giselher and Lore Klebe based on John Millington Synge’s play The Playboy of the Western World.
In an isolated Wicklow cottage, Nora tends the apparently dead body of her husband Dan. When Dan reveals he has feigned death, Nora chooses to leave with a visiting tramp rather than remain with Dan and the shepherd Michael.
A Caribbean adaptation of Synge's comedy, relocating its story to a small fishing village in the West Indies with a 1950s setting and Creole dialogue.
On Inishmaan, grieving widow Maurya fears her son Bartley will also be lost to the sea after it has taken her husband and five sons. Her daughters identify the body of Michael, and Bartley later drowns after leaving to sell a horse. The play presents the sea as both livelihood and relentless threat.
Maurya and her daughters fear that Bartley will be claimed by the sea after the family has already lost several men. While Maurya goes to bless his journey, they identify the body of her son Michael; Bartley then dies in a fall into the sea, and Maurya accepts that the sea has taken all her sons.
During the Spanish Civil War, Teresa Carrar tries to keep her sons from joining the fighting, but the pressure of the conflict ultimately draws her to the side of the oppressed.
Christy Mahon arrives at an Irish pub claiming to have killed his father and becomes a local hero. When his father appears alive, the villagers turn on Christy; his second attack leads them to try to hang him, until the father survives again and leaves with his son.
Sarah persuades Michael Byrne to marry her and secures a priest's promise to perform the ceremony for ten shillings and a tin can. After Michael's mother steals the can, the priest refuses to marry them; the tinkers tie him in a sack, free him after his promise not to call the police, and flee under his curse.
Two blind beggars, Martin and Mary Doul, are led to believe they are beautiful. After a saint restores their sight, they are repulsed by their appearance and by one another; when they later lose their sight again, Martin refuses another cure, and the couple leave town.
Deirdre flees with Naoise, son of Usna, rather than become the aging King Conchubor's queen. After seven years in exile, the couple accept the king's offer to return; Naoise is killed, and Deirdre takes her own life beside him.
A three-act German opera by Giselher and Lore Klebe based on John Millington Synge’s play The Playboy of the Western World.
In an isolated Wicklow cottage, Nora tends the apparently dead body of her husband Dan. When Dan reveals he has feigned death, Nora chooses to leave with a visiting tramp rather than remain with Dan and the shepherd Michael.
A Caribbean adaptation of Synge's comedy, relocating its story to a small fishing village in the West Indies with a 1950s setting and Creole dialogue.
On Inishmaan, grieving widow Maurya fears her son Bartley will also be lost to the sea after it has taken her husband and five sons. Her daughters identify the body of Michael, and Bartley later drowns after leaving to sell a horse. The play presents the sea as both livelihood and relentless threat.
Maurya and her daughters fear that Bartley will be claimed by the sea after the family has already lost several men. While Maurya goes to bless his journey, they identify the body of her son Michael; Bartley then dies in a fall into the sea, and Maurya accepts that the sea has taken all her sons.
During the Spanish Civil War, Teresa Carrar tries to keep her sons from joining the fighting, but the pressure of the conflict ultimately draws her to the side of the oppressed.
Christy Mahon arrives at an Irish pub claiming to have killed his father and becomes a local hero. When his father appears alive, the villagers turn on Christy; his second attack leads them to try to hang him, until the father survives again and leaves with his son.
Sarah persuades Michael Byrne to marry her and secures a priest's promise to perform the ceremony for ten shillings and a tin can. After Michael's mother steals the can, the priest refuses to marry them; the tinkers tie him in a sack, free him after his promise not to call the police, and flee under his curse.
Two blind beggars, Martin and Mary Doul, are led to believe they are beautiful. After a saint restores their sight, they are repulsed by their appearance and by one another; when they later lose their sight again, Martin refuses another cure, and the couple leave town.