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J.M. Synge: Well of the Saints, Act I
A blind couple regains their sight only to realize they hate the look of one another. Hilarity and pigheadedness ensues.
Come join me on a three act romp through the Irish countryside where we begin to learn that ugliness and beauty aren't as topical as one might believe, and that the people who have their sight are oftentimes the ones who are the most oblivious.
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Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.
Synge suffered from Hodgkin's disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin's-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.
*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*
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By Brendan MoirA blind couple regains their sight only to realize they hate the look of one another. Hilarity and pigheadedness ensues.
Come join me on a three act romp through the Irish countryside where we begin to learn that ugliness and beauty aren't as topical as one might believe, and that the people who have their sight are oftentimes the ones who are the most oblivious.
Follow me on other platforms:
https://bemuse.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN
https://www.patreon.com/bemuse
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw
Website: https://bemusearts.com
*This Season's Album Art by Brian Fisher*
Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.
Synge suffered from Hodgkin's disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin's-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.
*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/brendan-moirs-playwright-corner/donations