Post-Gazette: "The stony fields of the west of Ireland are layered with history, human and mythic. So a pile of rocks in a field is as likely to be the remains of a medieval monk's cell or Viking fort as a fairy ring or collapsed cow shed -- or possibly all five in succession.
That's how it is with the plays of John Millington Synge (1871-1909), who made the drama of the Irish countryside a seminal force in the heightened naturalism of the 20th century. There he found the colorful settings and characters for his six shorter plays that join with 'The Playboy of the Western World' to create what Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre calls its Synge Cycle."
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