Eamon Grennan (well known Irish poet) has taken a number of fairly representative moments from The Aran Islands and turned them into a kind of collage to represent as much as possible what the book is like and to give something of it’s flavour. It is a “dramatic recital.” That is because it is not a play, but it makes use of play-like elements. But perhaps the most important part is played by Synge’s own narrative, and to get that across two separate voices are used – a female voice and a male voice, with the female voice (Tegolin Knowland) often being the more lyrical side of Synge and the male voice (Sean Coyne) the more factual side. Then there are other characters, both male and female, and these are played by Tegolin and Sean also.
