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The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming he killed his father.

The play is known for its use of the poetic, evocative language of Hiberno-English, heavily influenced by the Irish language, as Synge celebrates the lyrical speech of the Irish.

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(archived link), EdinburghGuide.com. Retrieved 25 June 2007. The Playboy of the Western World, 2004, DruidTheatre.com. Retrieved 25 June 2007. Love Song...

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the connotations of "gambler" and "musician". By 1907, in J. M. Synge's comedy The Playboy of the Western World, the term had acquired the notion of a...

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in the Rising Star category in 2010. The following year, he starred in the film Killing Bono, and in John Crowley's production of The Playboy of the Western...

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The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, both at the Old Vic. In August 2012, Niamh Cusack rejoined the National Theatre to create the role of...

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participated in RTÉ radio dramas such as The Playboy of the Western World and Hecuba by Marina Carr. She also stars in the audible original vampire-apocalypse...

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(1947), The Rising of the Moon (1957), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), also The Loves of Cass Maguire (1975), and Playboy of the Western World (1946)...

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Playboy of the Western World. Downey moved to New York City after an agent, whom she met during the tour of The Playboy of the Western World, suggested...

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film Among the Paths to Eden (1967). Stapleton made her Broadway debut in 1946 in The Playboy of the Western World, and went on to win the 1951 Tony Award...

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John Millington Synge

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writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best-known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received...

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which she has performed include The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Uncle Vanya...

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(1990) Over the bridge by Sam Thompson as Ephraim Smart, Lyric Theatre (1990) Playboy of the Western World as Shawn Keogh, Lyric Theatre (1990) The Iceman...

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of John Millington Synge's 1907 The Playboy of the Western World. Playboy of the West Indies opened in 1984 at the Oxford Playhouse, where it had been...

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Cusack's favorite roles included The Covery in The Plough and the Stars and Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World, which he reprised numerous times...

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Cillian Murphy

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Ireland with the Druid Theatre Company, in The Playboy of the Western World (playing the character of Christy Mahon) under the direction of Garry Hynes—who...

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Fay The Playboy of the Western World directed by Jimmy Fay. Kinlan also played Bartley in a major production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan...

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husband in the PBS television film Playboy of the Western World in 1983, in John Huston's 1987 film The Dead, and in the 1994 drama War of the Buttons....

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Emmy for the 1983 PBS broadcast of his 1982 GLSF production of The Playboy of the Western World. He was visiting professor at The College of Wooster in...

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Aidan Gillen

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better known as Aidan Gillen (/ˈɡɪlən/), is an Irish actor. He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British...

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Actress in 2007 for Stardust. In 2009, Bradley starred in the film In Her Skin, the true story of an Australian teen who goes missing and is later found...

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productions including Big Love for the Abbey Theatre, The Playboy of the Western World for the Druid Theatre Company, All in the Timing for Inis Theatre and...

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