RIDERS TO THE SEA
Synopsis:
This one act play is set in a cottage kitchen in the Aran Isles off the west coast of Ireland. It is a sombre presentation of the anguish and resignation of Aran wives and sisters successively robbed by the sea of all their menfolk and was first performed in February 1904.
BHTC NOTES: It is not clear whether this production was just staged for theatre club members as a one off, or ever produced for the larger general public. However, the club did enter this production in the Mid-Sussex Arts Festival that year (See Press Review 2).
With no production programme yet discovered, the cast & crew details have been taken from the press reviews.
RIDERS TO THE SEA
Playwright: John Millington Synge
Genre: 1 Act Play Drama
Directed by: Sheila Wells
Production Date: July 1970
Group: BHTC
Staged: The Park Centre, Burgess Hill
BHTC Production Number: 64
PLAYWRIGHT:
John Millington Synge was born in I87I in Rathfarnham, now absorbed into the suburbs of south Dublin, Ireland. He died in 1909.
Nancy Forsdike
John McDonnell
Joan Collins
Christine Batsford
Cast
Maurya
Bartley
Cathleen
Nora
Stage Manager & Effects
Set Design
Set Construction
Costumes
Prompt
Lighting
Richard Paplin
Sheila Tapner
W F Wells
Sheila Tapner
Jean Poulson
Richard Papner, Alan Dann & Gavin Maconachie
Crew
Men & Women Of The Village:
Keith Jefferies, Rodney Nash, Mary Coleman, Jean Poulson & Barbara Chamberlain
Press Cuttings
