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Total Stories: 30          Published: Thu, Jan 7, 2010


Drama, not propaganda, at Dublin's Abbey Theatre

Raymond na Hatta's piece on the Abbey Theatre in the UHe(December 31) omitted the famous riots of 1907 when J M Synge's 'Playboy of the Western World' caused violent disturbance in the audience.

Catholic Ireland couldn't accept any impugning of indigenous chastity, as suggested by Synge's image of Connemara women in their underwear: "It's Pegeen I'm seeking only, and what'd I care if you brought me a drift of chosen females, standing in their shifts itself, maybe, from this place to the eastern World?"

For a conservative and pious audience, the use of the word 'shift' was a step too far.

There were more riots in 1926 at the premier of Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars' which questions the romantic view of Irish nationalism. The last two acts take place during Easter Week 1916.

Apropos of which, Britain's folly in executing the leaders of the Easter Rising should not be seen as an excuse for the glorification of republican violence on the stage of Ireland's National Theatre in 2016.

T S Birrell

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