• The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on...
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  • The Playboy of the Western World is a 1962 film version of the 1907 play written by John Millington Synge. It was directed and co-written by Brian Desmond...
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  • the connotations of "gambler" and "musician". By 1907, in J. M. Synge's comedy The Playboy of the Western World, the term had acquired the notion of a...
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    (archived link), EdinburghGuide.com. Retrieved 25 June 2007. The Playboy of the Western World, 2004, DruidTheatre.com. Retrieved 25 June 2007. Love Song...
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    participated in RTÉ radio dramas such as The Playboy of the Western World and Hecuba by Marina Carr. She also stars in the audible original vampire-apocalypse...
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    Roma Downey (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Playboy of the Western World. Downey moved to New York City after an agent, whom she met during the tour of The Playboy of the Western World, suggested...
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    Robert Sheehan (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    in the Rising Star category in 2010. The following year, he starred in the film Killing Bono, and in John Crowley's production of The Playboy of the Western...
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    John Millington Synge (category Alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music)
    writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best-known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received...
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  • Niamh Cusack (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, both at the Old Vic. In August 2012, Niamh Cusack rejoined the National Theatre to create the role of...
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    Maureen Stapleton (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    film Among the Paths to Eden (1967). Stapleton made her Broadway debut in 1946 in The Playboy of the Western World, and went on to win the 1951 Tony Award...
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    Conleth Hill (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    (1990) Over the bridge by Sam Thompson as Ephraim Smart, Lyric Theatre (1990) Playboy of the Western World as Shawn Keogh, Lyric Theatre (1990) The Iceman...
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  • of John Millington Synge's 1907 The Playboy of the Western World. Playboy of the West Indies opened in 1984 at the Oxford Playhouse, where it had been...
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    Maureen Cusack (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    (1947), The Rising of the Moon (1957), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), also The Loves of Cass Maguire (1975), and Playboy of the Western World (1946)...
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  • Olwen Fouéré (category Irish people of Breton descent)
    Beckett Award' at the Dublin Theatre Festival for her role as Hester Swane in the world premiere of "By the Bog of Cats" by Marina Carr at the Abbey Theatre...
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  • Vincent Dowling (category Irish emigrants to the United States)
    Emmy for the 1983 PBS broadcast of his 1982 GLSF production of The Playboy of the Western World. He was visiting professor at The College of Wooster in...
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    The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Silver Tassie, Druid 35 and The Playboy of the Western World (Druid), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Detroit (National...
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    Martha Plimpton (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    which she has performed include The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Uncle Vanya...
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    Cyril Cusack (category Actors from the London Borough of Hounslow)
    Cusack's favorite roles included The Covery in The Plough and the Stars and Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World, which he reprised numerous times...
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    Ireland with the Druid Theatre Company, in The Playboy of the Western World (playing the character of Christy Mahon) under the direction of Garry Hynes—who...
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  • Laurence Kinlan (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    Fay The Playboy of the Western World directed by Jimmy Fay. Kinlan also played Bartley in a major production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan...
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    Anne-Marie Duff (category Alumni of the Drama Centre London)
    Best Actress. She was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress for her work in the 2007 television film The History of Mr Polly. Further television...
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    Gary Raymond (category Actors from the London Borough of Lambeth)
    Heston and Loren; The Playboy of the Western World (1962), which he starred in; Jason and the Argonauts (1963), a fantasy film; and The Greatest Story Ever...
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  • Playboy of the Western World, Plunder, Hamlet, and Judgement at the Old Vic Theatre 1976: Tamburlaine the Great, The Playboy of the Western World, Il Campiello...
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  • 2002 Philly Cullen, a character in the play The Playboy of the Western World Philly (dog), a dog that served in World War I Search for "philly" on Wikipedia...
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  • husband in the PBS television film Playboy of the Western World in 1983, in John Huston's 1987 film The Dead, and in the 1994 drama War of the Buttons....
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  • Angeline Ball (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    actor. Ball, the youngest of three sisters, was born in Cabra, Dublin. As a child she trained in tap, ballet and modern dance attending the Billie Barry...
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  • performances of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World resulted in riots by theatergoers, which had to be quelled by police. The real W....
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    The Playboy of the Western World. The latter play was condemned by Irish nationalists, including Sinn Féin leader Arthur Griffith, who described the play...
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  • Mairead McKinley (category Alumni of RADA)
    London; The Playboy of the Western World for the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Wind in the Willows and The Servant of Two Masters at the Crucible Theatre...
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  • Shalom Brune-Franklin (category Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts alumni)
    after seeing the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), she decided on an acting career. Brune-Franklin auditioned at the WAAPA and then...
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