The Irish Studies Program at Fairfield University will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Irish in Film Series with six free screenings of plays by acclaimed Anglo-Irish playwright John Millington Synge. The films are all live, stage productions directed by Gary Hynes of the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.
The film series is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
All films, produced in Dublin in 2007, will be screened in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library multimedia room on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., except the first film, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. The film series is part of Fairfield's Arts & Minds season of cultural and intellectual programming.
On March 28, Synge scholar Rob Doggett, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, will present Synge's first play, "In the Shadow of the Glen" (1903), a comedy about a May-December marriage with a resurrection theme, starring Mick Lally, Louise Lewis and Eamon Morrissey. Synge got the material for the play from a story he heard on a visit to the Aran Islands.
For more information, contact Marion White, Irish Studies Program, at (203) 254-4000, ext. 3021 or mwhite@fairfield.edu.
The Irish Studies Program at Fairfield University will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Irish in Film Series with six free screenings of plays by acclaimed Anglo-Irish playwright John Millington Synge. The films are all live, stage productions directed by Gary Hynes of the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.
The film series is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
All films, produced in Dublin in 2007, will be screened in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library multimedia room on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., except the first film, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. The film series is part of Fairfield's Arts & Minds season of cultural and intellectual programming.
On March 28, Synge scholar Rob Doggett, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, will present Synge's first play, "In the Shadow of the Glen" (1903), a comedy about a May-December marriage with a resurrection theme, starring Mick Lally, Louise Lewis and Eamon Morrissey. Synge got the material for the play from a story he heard on a visit to the Aran Islands.
For more information, contact Marion White, Irish Studies Program, at (203) 254-4000, ext. 3021 or mwhite@fairfield.edu.
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The Irish Studies Program at Fairfield University will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Irish in Film Series with six free screenings of plays by acclaimed Anglo-Irish playwright John Millington Synge. The films are all live, stage productions directed by Gary Hynes of the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.
The film series is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
All films, produced in Dublin in 2007, will be screened in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library multimedia room on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., except the first film, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. The film series is part of Fairfield's Arts & Minds season of cultural and intellectual programming.
Robert Epstein, Ph.D., associate professor of English, will introduce "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (1910) on March 21. Published posthumously, the play deals with ill-fated Deirdre (Gemma Reeves), who runs off to Scotland with her love only to have to return to fulfill her epic prophesy. It is the stuff of Celtic and Irish myth.
For more information, contact Marion White, Irish Studies Program, at (203) 254-4000, ext. 3021 or mwhite@fairfield.edu.
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The Irish Studies Program at Fairfield University will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Irish in Film Series with six free screenings of plays by acclaimed Anglo-Irish playwright John Millington Synge. The films are all live, stage productions directed by Gary Hynes of the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.
The film series is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
All films, produced in Dublin in 2007, will be screened in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library multimedia room on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., except the first film, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. The film series is part of Fairfield's Arts & Minds season of cultural and intellectual programming.
On Wednesday, March 7, at 7:00 p.m., two one-act plays will be offered: "Riders to the Sea," introduced by Prof. Marion White, who teaches in the Irish Studies Program; and "The Tinker's Wedding," introduced by William Abbott, D.Phil., associate professor of history.
"The Riders to the Sea" (1904) is set on Inishmore and is an accurate portrayal of Aran Island peasant life. The play is epic in its theme of man against the powerful forces of nature. Marie Mullen takes on the leading role of Maurya, who has lost all the men in her life to drowning.
"The Tinker's Wedding" (1907) is a controversial comedy with an anti-clerical theme in which a uncharitable parish priest (Eamon Morrissey) disgraces his collar by sitting down by the roadside and drinking with a tinker woman Mary Byrne (Marie Mullen). Synge appreciated the wildness and humor of the tinkers and their wish to live unsettled lives.
For more information, contact Marion White, Irish Studies Program, at (203) 254-4000, ext. 3021 or mwhite@fairfield.edu.
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