Synge grew up near Dublin, was educated at Dublin University, and spent years traveling in Europe. He built his literary reputation mainly as a playwright.
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Orson Bean and Alley Mills star in the story of a man who becomes the town hero after he boasts of murdering his father. Riots greeted the first performance of this 1907 comic masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance. An L.A. Theatre Works full-ca... SEE MORE