RIDERS TO THE SEA
Playwright: John Millington Synge
Genre: 1 Act Play Drama
Group: BHTC
Staged: The Park Centre, Burgess Hill
Nancy Forsdike
John McDonnell
Joan Collins
Christine Batsford
Cast
Press Cuttings
Production Date: July 1970
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
Directed by: Sheila Wells
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.
PLAYWRIGHT:
John Millington Synge was born in I87I in Rathfarnham, now absorbed into the suburbs of south Dublin, Ireland. He died in 1909.
Men & Women Of The Village:
Keith Jefferies, Rodney Nash, Mary Coleman, Jean Poulson & Barbara Chamberlain
BHTC Production Number: 64
