THEATER REVIEW; Abbey Theatre's 'Playboy' is striking, provocative

From: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA | Date: November 5, 2004| Author: Jon Lehman | Copyright information

When "The Playboy of the Western World," John Millington Synge's ironic comedy of rural Irish life, love and violence, opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907, there were riots outside the theater for a week. The public outrage was not inspired by the depiction of poor farmers and villagers of western Ireland who are so hungry for a bit of excitement that they make a local hero of a young man who admits to murdering his father. Nor by the fact that the villagers turn on their hero and ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

THEATER REVIEW; Abbey Theatre's 'Playboy' is striking, provocative
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA ; When "The Playboy of the Western World," John Millington Synge's ironic comedy of rural Irish life, love and violence, opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907, there were riots outside the theater for a week. The public outrage was not inspired by the depiction of poor farmers and villagers
The Playboy of the Western World
Philadelphia Weekly ; Tues., Oct. 12, 7:30pm. $25-$49. Through Oct. 17. Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. 215.893.3900. www.pennpresents.org When J.M. Synge's masterpiece The Playboy of the Western World first appeared at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907, it caused a riot
The Playboy In the Western World
Western European Stages ; ... 1904 with a double-bill of one-act plays, On Baile's Strand by William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory's Spreading the News. It was, however, with the 1907 premier of The Playboy that the theatre earned its national and international reputation. Thus ...
Profile: Abbey Theatre continues under fiscal and personnel crises
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) ; ... a third of its permanent staff. The bad news has overshadowed the Abbey's 100th anniversary ... identity of a changing nation. Lynn Neary, NPR News. (Soundbite of music) SIMON: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Content and Programming ...
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
The Independent - London ; 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
'ART OF THE WESTERN WORLD' SERIES IS AMBITIOUS BUT BLAND
The Boston Globe ; One of the occupational hazards of the art history teacher is the slide operator who doesn't turn up for class. (Solution: "Well, if we had those Poussin slides today, here's what you might have seen A worst-case scenario now and then occurs when the slides have indeed arrived, and the teacher
Western World marks its 25th anniversary. (Western World Insurance Corp.)
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management ; ... again to the industry, causing a competitive environment for our companies, and resulting in a loss of premium volume. The good news is that we do not expect the current cycle to last as long or to be as irresponsibly competitive as the last soft market, according ...
ARTS DIARY: THEATRE - The Playboy of the Western World,Royal Exchange,Manchester.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England) ; Byline: MALCOLM HANDLEY THEY say voters get the Government they deserve and, to a certain extent, the same is true of plays and audiences -but not in this case. The Playboy of the Western World by J. M.Synge is surely one of the finest pieces of 20thcentury drama -full of
The Playboy of the Western World. (South Street Theater, New York City)
The Nation ; The Playboy of the Western World By a happy coincidence the Irish Repertory Theatre mounted a production of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, at the South Street Theatre. The coincidence lies in the remarkable correspondence between the plots of Playboy and Six Degrees of Separation.
Fed:Aust must make ed spending highest in western world - Butler
AAP General News (Australia) ; AAP General News (Australia) 10-26-2001 Fed:Aust must make ed spending highest in western world - Butler By Miranda Korzy SYDNEY, Oct 26 AAP - Australians ...