Druid Theatre Company brings the plays of John Millington Synge to the Lincoln Centre in New York.
The Druid Theatre production consists of eight and a half hours of the complete plays of the Irish playwright John Millington Synge. The cycle of six plays was first performed at the Galway Arts Festival in 2005 and have been brought to the stage at the Lincoln Centre with funding from Culture Ireland.
Artistic Director with Druid Theatre, Garry Hynes, sees the production of Synge's plays as an opportunity to bring the company's work to new places and new audiences.
Druid are travelling with 19 actors and stage crew and have just come from productions at the Guthrie Centre in Minneapolis to rave reviews.
The enduring popularity of plays like 'Playboy of the Western World’ is a reminder of Synge’s influence on world drama.
Actor Eamon Morrissey describes Synge’s ‘Playboy of the Western World’ as,
A universal story of life and death and particularly of death and he encourages everybody to live a full life.
The Lincoln Festival is one of the great cultural events in the New York calendar, placing Druid’s work amongst the best in the world.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 10 July 2006. The reporter is Robert Shortt.
