In what year did J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World spark a riot?

July 12, 2020March 5, 2012 by Pamela Landy

Rioting started during the first performance of the comedy The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907.

The commotion was started by a reference to an undergarment.

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