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Dec 20, 2021 · The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge. Spoken introduction by Cyril Cusack. with Cyril Cusak - Christopher Mahon, Siobhan McKenna - Pegeen Mike, Thomas Studley - Shawn Keogh, Seamus Kavanagh - Michael James Flaherty, John McDarby - Philly Cullen, Milo O'Shea - Jimmy Farrell, Maire Kean - Widow Quin. Addeddate.
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- John Millington Synge
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- 1962
- English
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Christy Mahon, a man who brags he has killed his fatherOld Mahon, Christy's father, a squatterMichael James Flaherty, a publicanMargaret Flaherty, called PegeenMike, Michael's daughter and the barmaidOn the west coast of County Mayo Christy Mahon stumbles into Flaherty's tavern. There he claims that he is on the run because he killed his own father by driving a loy into his head. Flaherty praises Christy for his boldness, and Flaherty's daughter (and the barmaid), Pegeen, falls in love with Christy, to the dismay of her betrothed, Shawn Keogh. ...
Riots occurred in January 1907 during and following the opening performance of the play. The riots were stirred up by Irish nationalists and republicans who viewed the contents of the play as an offence to public morals and an insult against Ireland. The riots took place in Dublin, spreading out from the Abbey Theatre and finally being quelled by t...
The play was staged by the Edinburgh Gateway Companyin March 1957, with Norman Fraser playing Christy and George Davies playing his father. In 1995, a production at Boise State University was directed by Richard Klautsch. It starred Roger Titmus, Isaac Perelson, Randy Davison, Sam Read and Sally Eames. In September 2007, the play returned to the Ab...
Theatrical
In 1912, Sil-Vara and Charles H. Fisher translated it into German as Der Held (literally 'hero') des Westerlands or Der Held der westlichen Welt and had it published by Georg Müller and performed at Max Reinhardt's Kammerspiele, Berlin, at the Neue Wiener Bühne in Vienna and at the Stadttheater in Münster. In 1973 the Irish language national theatre group Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe produced an adaptation in the Irish language by Seán Ó Carra entitled Buachaill Báire an Domhain Thiar. The play w...
Operatic and musical
In 1975 Giselher Klebe's operatic adaption Ein wahrer Held (A True Hero) premiered at the Zurich Opera House.A 2003 operatic rendition by Mark Alburger was produced from 23 to 26 August 2007 by Goat Hall Productions/SF Cabaret Opera at Oakland Metro Opera House, in Oakland, California. A musical theatre version, written by Kate Hancock and Richard B. Evans, premiered at the STAGES 2005 musical festival at the Theatre Building Chicago. In 2009, a musical adaptation entitled Golden Boy of the B...
Film and television
A 1962 film version of the play was produced in Ireland, with the screenplay by writer-director Brian Desmond Hurst. It stars Siobhán McKenna as Pegeen, Gary Raymond as Christy, and Elspeth March as Widow Quin, with music by Seán Ó Riada. London weekday ITV contractor Associated-Rediffusionmade a production of the play for schools, in three parts plus an introduction to the history of the period, which aired in February and March 1964. A 1994 TV movie adaptation was entitled Paris or Somewher...
While based in a fictional shebeen (unlicensed pub) in the Geesala area of County Mayo, some of the characters and events in the play are partially based on a true story which was reputedly recounted to Synge by an old man from the Aran Islands. According to Synge, the character of Christy Mahon, the "savage hero" of the play, was at least partiall...
Source: 1. "... it's great luck and company I've won me in the end of time—two fine women fighting for the likes of me—till I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in the years gone by." —Christy 2. "Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; p...
Synge, J.M. (1997). The Playboy of the Western World, Introduction by Margaret Llewellyn Jones, Nick Hern Books, London, ISBN 978-1-85459-210-1.Synge, J.M. (1983). The Playboy of the Western World. Commentary and notes by Non Worrall. London. ISBN 0-413-51940-6.Kiely, David M. (1995). John Millington Synge: A Biography, New York, ISBN 978-0-31213-526-3Coonan, Clifford (23 March 2006). "Pegeen Mike evokes a blush in Beijing". The Irish Times.The Playboy of the Western World at Standard EbooksThe Playboy of the Western World at Project Gutenberg"Playboy of the Western World, The" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.Jul 17, 2023 · 1912 reprint of the 1911 Pocket Edition. 4149732The Playboy of the Western World1912Edmund John Millington Synge. . THE PLAYBOY OF THEWESTERN WORLD. . Printed by Maunsel and Co., Ltd., Dublin. . THE PLAYBOY OF THEWESTERN WORLDA COMEDY IN THREE ACTSBY JOHN M. SYNGE. MAUNSEL AND COMPANY LTD. 96 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET, DUBLIN.
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