"The Tinker's Wedding" by J. M. Synge is a funny play that shows what life was like for traveling tinkers in Ireland around the beginning of the 1900s. It's all about Michael Byrne and Sarah Casey, two tinkers who are in love, and Sarah really wants to get married. The play shows their funny and sometimes difficult relationship, especially with Michael's crazy mother, Mary Byrne, and the local priest, who is supposed to help them get married but has his own problems with it. As Sarah tries to make the wedding happen, they have to deal with money problems and try to get the priest to agree, which leads to lots of funny arguments. The play gives a lively look at the funny and hard parts of being a tinker, showing how people act and what society was like back then.
The Tinker's Wedding
By J. M. (John Millington) Synge
Amidst the Irish countryside, a tinker couple’s yearning for marriage collides with a meddling mother and a conflicted priest, leading to uproarious chaos.
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About the AuthorEdmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best-known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of patricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. His other major works include In the Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905), and The Tinker's Wedding (1909).
Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best-known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of patricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. His other major works include In the Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905), and The Tinker's Wedding (1909).
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