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Plot Summary. The Playboy of the Western World takes place in the early 1900s at a local bar in County Mayo, Ireland. In Act I, the fiery Margaret Flaherty, known as Pegeen Mike, runs her father’s bar alone at night. Her father, Michael James Flaherty, is away at a wake. Shawn Keogh, Pegeen Mike’s self-proclaimed fiancé, enters to tell her ...
Il playboy del mondo occidentale. The Playboy of the Western World è un'opera teatrale in tre atti scritta dal drammaturgo irlandese John Millington Synge e interpretata per la prima volta all'Abbey Theatre di Dublino il 26 gennaio 1907. È ambientata nella casa pubblica di Michael James Flaherty nella contea di Mayo (a ovest costa dell ...
The recording was made by Ravel Productions (UK) and broadcast on London’s Channel 4. "The definitive Playboy…". — The Irish Times. The following is excerpted from a review by D. J. R. Bruckner that appeared in the New York Times, July 31, 1986. The review is of a live performance at SUNY Purchase in Purchase, NY of the same production:
27 lug 1998 · Anybody reviving this hoary classic in a new-world bastion of Irish-American culture has to walk some tough tightropes. On the one hand, "The Playboy of the Western World" is both satirically self ...
3 ott 2011 · Leo Benedictus. Mon 3 Oct 2011 11.23 EDT. O ne hundred and four years ago, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, which tells the story of a young man charming Ireland's ...
A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
