The Playboy of the Western World

‘It’s a grand story’, the village girls agree as they listen to Christy Mahon recount the tale of how he killed his Da, ‘he tells it lovely’.  After scandalising upright Dublin citizens at its premiere in 1907, JM Synge’s tragicomic masterpiece has been delighting and entertaining audiences the world over ever since. It scales the heights of poetic imagination but is rooted in the everyday reality of ordinary people with an extraordinary hunger for life.