The Playboy of the Western World: Starring Orson Bean and Alley Mills [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)

~ Orson Bean (Editor, Narrator), Alley Mills (Narrator), (Author)

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Comedy in three acts by J.M. Synge, published and produced in 1907. It is a masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance. This most famous of Synge's works fused the patois of ordinary Irish villagers with Synge's sophisticated rhetoric and 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. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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In a wayside pub near a village in County Mayo in western Ireland, Christopher Mahon becomes a local hero when he announces to the patrons that he’s killed his father.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: La Theatre Works; Unabridged edition (June 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580811949
• ISBN-13: 978-1580811941
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,505,980 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JUST SAW THE PLAY, March 14, 1999

By	Victor Bloom MD (grosse pointe, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Playboy of the Western World (Paperback)

It is a wild, woolly, farcical, slapstick, poetic-philosophical comedy, which deserves a reading, as the Irish accents can be largely non-understandable. The play had the feel of a classic, although it helps to know the times and the Irish reaction to it, historically.