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The Playboy of the Western World at The Company of Players (Hertford) 02
Season: 1991-1992
4th – 11th April 1992 at 8pm The Playboy of the Western World
By J. M. Synge  
Directed by  Lelia Kershaw

This most famous of Synge’s works fused the patois of ordinary Irish villagers with Synge’s sophisticated rhetoric. It enraged Irish playgoers with its satire of Irish braggadocio. The play follows the mercurial rise and fall of the character Christy Mahon, whose self-reported murder of his father earns him much admiration until his father shows up alive and in pursuit of his cowardly son.

CAST

Christopher Mahon
Pageen Mike
Old mahon
Philly Cullen
Michael james
Jimmy Farrel
Sara tansey
Honor blake
Susan Brady

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