Programme

The 15th Synge Summer School, 1st July - 7th July 2007
Synge and his Contexts
Sunday July 1st
12.00 - 3.00	Registration, Conference Centre, Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co.Wicklow
5.30	Official opening of the school by Fiach MacConghail, Director of the Abbey Theatre
7.30	Irish Drama performance by IMP Productions at Avondale House
Monday July 2nd
9.30	Professor Anthony Roche 'Synge's Playboy: The Oral and the Written'
11.15	Dr. Fiona McIntosh 'The Abbey and the Court: Yeats, Synge and the Greek Theatre of Gilbert Murray'
2.00 - 3.30	Seminars
4.00	Synge Country tour: Ballinaclash, Greenane, Glenmalure and Glendalough. Return to Avondale at 7.30
Tuesday July 3rd
9.30	Professor Harry White 'Synge and Music'
11.15	Professor Anna McMullan 'Protean Bodies in Beckett and Synge'
2.00 - 4.00	Drama Workshop - Jim Culleton
	Evening free
Wednesday July 4th
11.15	Professor Ann Saddlemyer 'The Poeticizing of Synge'
2.00 - 3.30	Seminars
8.00	Poetry Reading: Evan Boland Brockagh Centre, Laragh, Glendalough
Thursday July 5th
9.30	Richard Pine 'Well, well, well: Synge, Yeats and Friel'
11.15	Dr. Eilis Ní Dhuibhne 'Synge and Folklore'
2.00 - 4.00	Drama Workshop - Jim Culleton
	Evening free
Friday July 6th
9.30	Dr. Ben Levitas 'Synge and Meta-Theatre'
11.15	Dr. Patrick Lonergan '"Mirror(s) Up to Nature": Druid Theatre's Productions of Synge, McDonagh and Keane'
2.00 - 3.30	Seminars
7.30	Synge Summer School dinner, Woodenbridge Hotel
Saturday July 7th
11.00	Panel discussion with Professor Ann Saddlemyer and Garry Hynes
1.00	Lunch, Avondale House
2.00	Close of School