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Sat 05 May 2004Raising a roof for SyngeArtscape: IT seems ironic in a year marked by two productions of Synge's Playboy - with more Synge to come from Galway's Druid Theatre - that for the want of €2,500, the future of Teach Synge on Inis Meáin could be in jeopardy, writes Lorna Siggins.The sum is to cover the cost of thatching the cottage where Synge stayed when he was on Inis Meáin more than a century ago. "Give up Paris," W.B. Yeats had told him in the French capital. "You will never create anything by reading Racine . . . Go to the Aran Islands."