The Playboy of the Western World

Synge's best known play, the occasion of riots in Dublin when it opened at the Abbey Theatre in 1907.

A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in the West of Ireland claiming to have killed his father. The locals are impressed some can even directly relate to the deed and Christy is lauded as a folk hero. He can't believe his luck, and confidently pursues the affections of the barmaid Pegeen, until the arrival of his not-so-dead father takes the winds out of Christy's sails...

Introduced by Margaret Llewllyn Jones.