The Playboy of the Western World

Name: The Playboy of the Western World
Director: Garry Hynes
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Cast: Catherine Walsh, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Nick Lee, Eamon Morrissey

“A black comedy of epic proportions.”

1h 55m

Director: Garry Hynes

Writer: John Millington Synge

Overview

Synge’s great comic masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, who stumbles into a public house in County Mayo claiming he has killed his father and so capturing the romantic attention of the daughter of the house, Pegeen Mike.