The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version
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Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s adaption of J.M. Synge’s classic play "The Playboy of the Western World" (1907) had a sold-out run in Ireland’s National Theatre in 2007. The adaptation relocates the story from rural Ireland and places it in a contemporary Dublin pub with the central character recast as a Nigerian asylum-seeker. Under the co-authorship of Adigun – artistic director of Ireland’s first African theatre company – and best-selling, Booker Prize author Doyle, "The New Playboy" represented an exciting intercultural collaboration, and to date, remains the most commercially successful theatre production on the themes of race and immigration in contemporary Ireland.
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
