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No, not the magazine men read "just for the articles," the play by J. M. Synge. *grins* Last night the Irish lit. class went on our final field trip, to see J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World performed at the Cork Opera House. It was way more fun than I anticipated it to be.
See, Synge's Aran Islands journals are dead boring, and his play Riders to the Sea was depressing as all get out, so I had fairly low expectations of this one (though the fact that the audience rioted when it was first perfomed in Dublin was promising). For example, I never expected it to be hilarious. Which it was. *grins again* Not quite as much fun as OUaTiM, but then, it didn't have gun-toting mariachi players.
Quick synopsis: Christy, a young man fleeing the law after murdering his father, takes refuge at a public house in a small town. All of the women throw themselves at him ('cause dude, he killed his father. How cool is that?) and he falls hard for Pegeen, the daughter of the pub's owner. And while he's trying to woo, Pegeen, and a local widow is trying to woo him, and Pegeen's previous suitor is trying to get him to leave, his father shows up again, miraculously not dead. And it only gets more complicated from there.
See, Synge's Aran Islands journals are dead boring, and his play Riders to the Sea was depressing as all get out, so I had fairly low expectations of this one (though the fact that the audience rioted when it was first perfomed in Dublin was promising). For example, I never expected it to be hilarious. Which it was. *grins again* Not quite as much fun as OUaTiM, but then, it didn't have gun-toting mariachi players.
Quick synopsis: Christy, a young man fleeing the law after murdering his father, takes refuge at a public house in a small town. All of the women throw themselves at him ('cause dude, he killed his father. How cool is that?) and he falls hard for Pegeen, the daughter of the pub's owner. And while he's trying to woo, Pegeen, and a local widow is trying to woo him, and Pegeen's previous suitor is trying to get him to leave, his father shows up again, miraculously not dead. And it only gets more complicated from there.