The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue

"The Turn of the Road" by Rutherford Mayne is a play set in a rural Irish farmhouse around 1907, telling the story of Robbie John Granahan, a young farmer torn between his family's expectations and his love for music. Robbie's passion for playing the fiddle clashes with his parents' desire for him to focus on farming, creating a conflict between his artistic ambitions and the practical demands of their family life. The tension rises as Robbie's neglect of his farming duties intensifies, forcing him to make a difficult choice about his future, with the play exploring themes of tradition, ambition, and the challenges of pursuing one's dreams in a society with strong family and societal expectations, and using both comedy and sadness to show the struggle between doing what is expected versus what one dreams of.