Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century.Includes:The Playboy of the Western WorldRiders to the SeaIn the Shadow of the GlenThe Well of the SaintsThe Tinker's WeddingDeirdre of the Sorrows

    Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, and turn to your neighbor.

    It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left his family and their history behind him.As a teenager, Rudi discovered that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz. Trying to reconcile his inherited guilt, Rudi lashed out against his family and his friends, and eventually fled to Germany. While there, he follows in his father's footsteps by studying medicine, and falls in love with Sarah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.Questioning redemption, love, guilt, and the sins of the father, East of Berlin is a tour de force that follows Rudi's emotional upheaval as he comes to terms with a frightening past that was never his own.

    Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow no man in such voyages'), and finally falls back on moral and religious values.