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Stephen Foster Memorial
4301 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Genre: Theatre
Playboy of the Western World
Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre
By John Millington Synge
In 1907, Playboy opened at the Abbey Theatre, sparking riots and altering theatrical history forever. What happened? Perhaps Synge’s story of Christopher Mahon, the lad who ‘slew his da,’ was too explicit in showing the sexual interest aroused in the Mayo women by the young Playboy. Or perhaps it was the wholly unacceptable spectacle of a man who had murdered his father being worshipped as a hero that angered the audience. Whatever the case, the sense of power and danger in this play, its unstable mixture of comedy and tragedy, of the lyrical and the grotesque, make it perhaps the greatest classic of the Irish National Theatre. Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre is pleased to bring you Playboy, directed by Andrew S. Paul, in all its harrowing, hair-raising, and howling hilarious glory as the centerpiece of Synge Cycle.
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