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Synge

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Synge
John Millington. 1871--1909, Irish playwright. His plays, marked by vivid colloquial Irish speech, include Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Playboy of the Western World, produced amidst uproar at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907


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Synge celebrates the simplicity, humanity, and culture he found among fishermen, mountain men, and peasants, while at the same time deploring the social deprivations the Irish suffered.
The Aran Islands and Connemara by Reference & Research Book News
He has regularly worked with The Abbey Theatre, the company which was founded in 1903 by WB Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory and playwright John Synge, the author of Playboy Of The Western World, and is currently taking his second stab at Playboy with Druid Theatre Company.
It's a riot; Irish play Playboy Of The Western World was so ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Synge surely reveals a lurking paganism and latent violence beneath his swaggering, rich language.
THEATRE Playboy of the Western World/ Liverpool Playhouse by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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