The Playboy of the Western World, J.M. Synge
The Playboy of the Western World, J.M. Synge
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The Playboy of the Western World

Author: J.M. Synge

Narrator: Orson Bean, Alley Mills, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2000


Synopsis

Orson Bean and Alley Mills star in the story of a man who becomes the town hero after he boasts of murdering his father. Riots greeted the first performance of this 1907 comic masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Orson Bean, Robert Evan Collins, Alexander Enberg, Jacqueline Heinze, Stuart W. Howard, Dennis Madden, Seth Margolies, Alley Mills, Carolyn Palmer and Sarah Moyo Tracey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 07, 2019

How can I help but love Ireland? For example, how can you not love a nation that values both popular theater and “Irish womanhood” so highly that a new comedy—with “scandalous” depictions of Irish women--can cause a riot? And, no, I don’t mean a “laugh riot.” I mean a real honest-to-Jesus in-the-the......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 04, 2021

This was quite a strange play. I think I rather enjoyed it but I wasn't expecting it to go in the directions it does. Possibly one I'd enjoy more on stage.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on June 04, 2013

I read this play in anticipation of seeing it performed at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon. I do not speak more than a dozen or so words of Portuguese (Obrigada, cafe com leite, vegetariano, etc.), so I needed the head start. Unfortunately, I am not able to comment on the dramaturgical com......more

Goodreads review by Josh on July 31, 2012

Playful and wonderfully irreverent, I can honestly understand why it would have been despised by certain audiences when it was published. Its central focus of a young man who is praised by a community for allegedly killing his father with a shovel is certainly one that would have been looked upon wi......more