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Theatre Production – Riders to the Sea
October 8-10, Show times at 6:30 pm and 8 pm
All performances will be held in the Parker Theatre. This fall we are limiting our audience to 50 per performance.
Cost for each performances is $5 per person. Faculty, Staff and students receive one free ticket. Call the box office at 573-629-3182 to make a reservation and pay at the door – cash or check only. We will not offer online ticket sales for the one acts and audience members. Running time for these productions will range from 40- 60 minutes with no intermission.
Riders to the Sea聽is a play written by聽听辫濒补测飞谤颈驳丑迟听. It was first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall,听, by the Irish National Theater Society with聽聽playing Maurya. A one-act聽, the play is set in the聽,听, and like all of Synge’s plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless聽.
Background – In 1897, J. M. Synge was encouraged by his friend and colleague聽聽to visit the Aran Islands. He went on to spend the summers from 1898 to 1903 there. While on the Aran island of Inishmaan, Synge heard the story of a man from Inishmaan whose body washed up on the shore of an island of聽, which inspired聽Riders to the Sea.
Riders to the Sea聽is written in the聽聽dialect of the Aran Islands. Synge’s use of the native聽聽is part of the聽, a period when聽聽looked to encourage pride and nationalism in Ireland.
