Brendan Conroy brings JM SYnge's Aran Island visit to life
THE name of John Millington Synge is celebrated all over the world, with the Irish dramatist’s masterpiece The Playboy of the Western World having been staged on every corner of the globe. The Aran Islands — a new play based on Synge’s journals from his time living on the Aran Islands — dramatises this most crucial period in Synge’s life and reveals the origins of many of the stories that would return in his great plays.
The show stars one of Ireland’s most charismatic actors, Brendan Conroy, who brings Synge to life while dipping in and out of a horde of other characters. Conroy is directed by Joe O’Byrne, who enjoyed great success with a similar format in Frank Pig Says Hello, his acclaimed adaptation of Pat McCabe’s The Butcher Boy.
