"It has a starry cast led by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), who is reuniting on stage with her Derry Girls colleague Siobhan McSweeney. With fellow Irish actor Eanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) as the male lead and direction from Caitriona McLaughlin, the Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, the National has plundered the emerald isle of some of its finest thespian talent for this production."
"The Playboy of the Western World is a classic of modern Irish theatre written in Synge's Hiberno-English dialect. First staged at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907, the premiere provoked intense hostility from sections of the audience, who objected to what they saw as the play's glorification of parricide, its frank sexual talk, and its portrayal of Irish rural life. Hisses, interruptions and thrown objects marred performances during the first week, and the disturbances became known as the Playboy Riots,"
The National production of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World stars Nicola Coughlan, Siobhan McSweeney and Eanna Hardwicke. The play is a classic of modern Irish theatre and was first staged at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. That premiere provoked intense hostility as audiences objected to perceived glorification of parricide, frank sexual talk and its portrayal of rural life. Hisses, interruptions and thrown objects marred early performances and the disturbances became known as the Playboy Riots. Yeats and Augusta Gregory defended Synge and kept the play in the repertoire, and later tours established it as a central text.
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