"RIDERS TO THE SEA"
Sir,-In his criticism of Riders to the Sea your commentator obviously missed Synge’s purpose in writing the play: to portray in dramatic fashion the terrible tragedy that is life on those windswept, waveswept, almost barren islands off the west coast of Ireland. Had Synge added the story of a whole hooker-full of young emigrants for America being lost in a bay a little further north when the boat capsized through their eagerness to see the ship that was to take them overseas he still would not have overpainted the picture, which lost nothing other than necessary shortening in its presentation in the Belfast studios of the BBC. "Too much agony"-that is the story of the wild west of Ireland, and it is well told in Riders to the Sea.
BLAZER
(Bombay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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135"RIDERS TO THE SEA" New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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