J.M. Synge Audio

Riots greeted the first performance of this 1907 comic masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance

Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent performances, and it seems unlikely that much of the actual play could have been heard in the uproar.

J.M. Synge, one of the greatest English language playwrites of the 20th century, immortalized the Aran Islands and its people with vivid written portraits that are among the greatest in modern literature....

The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge.