Adrian
30th January 2008, 09:39 AM
Sometimes I read things only because they are referenced in a book written by what I call a "trusted" author. If he likes it enough to quote from it in his own book, then that's good enough for me. Ken Bruen did this in his Jack Taylor novels with Irish playwright John Millington Synge.
The Playboy of the Western World is centred round an Irish pub, probably a shebeen, and concerns the goings on of the neighbourhood. It's a nicely plotted play with the main characters being well introduced - each one comes on-stage at the right time (even though this is the book I'm talking about) such that I could keep track of who was who even when I had only their name to identify them.
I love it for its undiluted Irishness (though the two Irish people at work had never heard of him), and whilst I'd love to see it on stage, I wouldn't entertain a production outside of the West coast of Ireland, and that's probably too far for a night out.
The Playboy of the Western World is centred round an Irish pub, probably a shebeen, and concerns the goings on of the neighbourhood. It's a nicely plotted play with the main characters being well introduced - each one comes on-stage at the right time (even though this is the book I'm talking about) such that I could keep track of who was who even when I had only their name to identify them.
I love it for its undiluted Irishness (though the two Irish people at work had never heard of him), and whilst I'd love to see it on stage, I wouldn't entertain a production outside of the West coast of Ireland, and that's probably too far for a night out.