IRISH FILM ARCHIVE:

Marking the centenary of his death, the third instalment of Stage to Screen, a partnership between the Irish Film Institute and the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, will focus on the works of John Millington Synge.
SATURDAY OCT 10TH – 12.15PM
RIDERS TO THE SEA (1935)
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Starring Sara Allgood, Ria Mooney, Shelah Richards.

RIDERS TO THE SEA (2006)
Directed by Garry Hynes. Starring Marie Mullen and Catherine Byrne.

Programme introduced by Garry Hynes.

SATURDAY OCT 10TH – 2PM WELL OF THE SAINTS (1975).
Encyclopedia Britannica production.

TO THE WESTERN WORLD (1981)
Directed by Margy Kinmonth about the travels of Synge and Jack Yeats to Connemara in 1905.

Programme introduced by Margy Kinmonth.

SUNDAY OCT 11th – 1PM
PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (1962)
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Starring Siobhan McKenna.