Riders To The Sea Synopsis
Riders to Sea
“Riders to the Sea” is an Irish play about a mother who lost many of her loved ones to the sea. Maurya, the mother, had been grieving for her missing son, Michael, and was in a fitful sleep at the beginning of the play. Her daughter Cathleen had been taking care of the household tasks while her younger daughter Nora enters with a bundle of clothing from the priest. When Maurya shows signs of waking up the girls hide the bundle from their mother, for it might be Michaels clothing. Besides grieving for Michael, Maurya now begins to worry about her only remaining son, Bartley. She has already lost 5 sons and her husband to the sea but Bartley is determined to cross over to the mainland regardless of the rough weather. With protest Maurya lets him go without her blessings. The girls persuade her to stop him with the lunch they had forgotten to give him and so to make an opportunity for the blessing she should have given him. While Maurya is gone the girls......
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