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Chicago Theater Review: DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS (City Lit at Edgewater Presbyterian Church) by Lawrence Bommer

FACING FATALITY It's the last play written by John Millington Synge. This Irish minstrel-playwright died in 1909 at only 37 after penning stunning beauties—Riders to the Sea and his masterpiece The Playboy of the Western World. Synge never saw his final offering Deirdre of the Sorrows. (It was last done in Chicago 100 years ago.) So it's not surprising […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 5:21pm on September 11, 2017

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