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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070105
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Byline: JAMES BLACK;CHARLES LEGGE

QUESTION Why was there a riot when J. M. Synge's play The Playboy Of The Western World premiered in 1907?

IRISH playwright John Millington Synge's three-act play The Playboy Of The Western World, set in Michael James Flaherty's County Mayo public house in the early 1900s, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on January 26, 1907.

The 'western world' is the rural west coast of Ireland and the story is of Christy Mahon who has run away from his home farm, claiming to have killed his father by driving a spear into his head.

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