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The Abbey controversy rolls along In hot water again, Ireland's 100-year-old national theater returns to Chicago with a dark 'Playboy'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20041125
Author:KEVIN NANCE

'The Playboy of the Western World'

When: Saturday through Dec. 12

Where: The Abbey Theatre at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier

Tickets: $50-$70

Call: (312) 595-5600

Almost from the start, Dublin's Abbey Theatre has been a crucible of controversy. Four years after W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory founded Ireland's national theater in 1903, riots broke out at the premiere of one of its earliest landmarks, J. M. Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World." A subsequent American tour of the show set off protests, arrests and even a death threat in Chicago.

As it celebrates its ...

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