#Riders_to_the_Sea #John_Millington_Synge The #play, set on an island off the coast of #Ireland, begins with #Nora bringing in a small bundle with her and telling #Cathleen that these may be the clothes of their brother Michael. The young priest told her a body of a drowned man was found at #Donegal, and the body might be #Michael's. The sisters are scared to open the bundle of clothes because they do not want their mother, Maurya to know: Michael has been missing for a week and the family had already lost five men to the sea. They hide the bundle in the turf loft of the cottage. #Maurya is prepared for the funeral for #Michael, with whiteboards for his coffin ready at the cottage. She enters the kitchen; she is a woman who is seen lamenting all the time and worrying that her sons will never come back from the sea. Maurya, Nora, and Cathleen discuss the last son, #Bartley, who is also planning to go the sea to sell the family horses so they could get some money. Nora and Cathlee...