Elspeth March News Today

STEPHEN GALLOWAY: To be invited as a guest to the Oliviers grand country home, Notley Abbey, a few miles outside Oxford, felt akin to being summoned by royalty.

Share with: John Millington Synge’s ‘scandalous’ play THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD is vividly brought to screen in this 1962 film adaptation which sees some of the leading lights of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre performing alongside English actor Gary Raymond who portrays the playboy of the title. Truth be told, most folk would be hard-pushed to find anything scandalous about this evergreen of the repertory theatre though bear in mind that the play premiered in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in...