The Playboy of the Western World
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 26, 2004
Closed Oct 31, 2004
Opened Oct 26, 2004
Closed Oct 31, 2004
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http://www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu
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Dublin's Abbey Theatre presents its signature piece, The Playboy of the Western World, directed by Ben Barnes. This production still possesses the power to provoke and captivate audiences worldwide. Its story of a stranger who seduces the inhabitants of a small village on the coast of Mayo with his 'gallous' tale of killing his father, provoked riots among the audience during its first staging in 1907, causing national outrage and sensation.
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Many plays have been called a riot, but very few have started one. John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World caused quite a demonstration when it opened at Dublin's three-year-old Abbey Theatre on January 26, 1907. In a telegram that Lady Gregory, who co-founded the Abbey with W.B. Yeats, sent her partner after the premiere's second act, she wrote, "Play broke up in disorder at the word shift." Some say it was more, citing Synge's cynical depiction of certain Irish types. (The play takes place in a rundown County Mayo shebeen.) Others felt that the specter of a supposedly dead man graphically revealing his wounds was the problem.
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