BALLAD OF AN IRISH PLAYBOY ; Celtic drama ++ A hundred years ago, 'The Playboy of the Western World' opened to riotous scenes in Dublin. Today the tiny Aran island that inspired the play has become a literary shrine. By David McKittrick

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 25, 2007| Author: David McKittrick | Copyright information

It was a play that had not so much an opening as a detonation, exactly a century ago, with many of those in the seats of Dublin's Abbey theatre rising in fury against it.

It generated what are remembered in Ireland as the "Playboy Riots" with the police called in to restore order and heated debate on what should and should not be seen on the Dublin stage. There was as much drama in the stalls as on the stage.

The leading actor William Fay reported, perhaps slightly histrionical...

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