The story of the Synge classic centres around Christy Mahon who arrives at a pub in Mayo claiming he has killed his father by ...

AT the heart of Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World sits a wildly comic concept: a central absurdity, effective only ...

The 'Bridgerton' star turned to a young designer from her native Ireland to commemorate her role in 'The Playboy of the ...

Let no one say that theatre cannot have real-world consequences: when it premiered at the Abbey in Dublin, Playboy sparked ...

The Cork actor is having quite the year, with Saipan en route to cinemas and his London role in The Playboy of the Western World ...

Quin is the perfect foil to Pegeen – the two women bounce off each other in a series of sharp, wickedly funny exchanges. As ...

The National Theatre has a long record of starry revivals so this version of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the ...

Nicola Coughlan, of Derry Girls and Bridgerton fame, is the main draw for this revival of JM Synge’s once scandalous 1907 ...

The National ought to have resolved the inaccessibility of JM Synge’s poetry before staging The Playboy of the Western World ...

Considered the first Irish “state of the nation” play, it’s now turned into a historical vignette imbued with hoarse black comedy. Its long placid rests are interrupted regularly by blazes of humorous ...

Nicola Coughlan leads a gorgeous but uneven production - 3/5 JM Synge’s 1907 Irish tragicomedy captures a community’s ...

Let no one say that theatre cannot have real-world consequences: when it premiered at the Abbey in Dublin, Playboy sparked riots that spread to the streets, thanks to its portrayal of a little ...