Eight-and-a-half hours is a very long time to occupy a theater seat; it requires courage and stamina on the part of the audience member and a certain bravura arrogance from the producer and director: whatever is asking so much from paying customers had better be well worth the watching. I can still remember, along with all the accolades, cries of anguish from people subjected to Peter Brook’s day-long Mahabarata.

But I think few will regret having invested their time in the Lincoln Center Festival’s DruidSynge, the sequential presentation of all six plays of John Millington Synge by Galway’s Druid Theater Company. Founded in 1975 as the first professional theater company in Ireland outside of Dublin, the Druid is probably best known in this country for its 1998 production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, for which Druid’s founding director Garry Hynes and founding company member Marie...

 

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