Five Great Modern Irish Plays

The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Syngeű

First produced in 1907, this play sent shock waves through the dramatic world, pushing the limits of decency and stoking an already red-hot nationalistic fire. Though met with near instant rioting and controversy, it is now considered a masterpiece of poetic drama.

Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey

The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced throughout the world and offers a compelling look at the family conflicts of struggling Irish matriarch Juno Boyle’s Herculean attempts to keep her children safe and her husband „Captain” Jack Boyle sober despite his foolish schemes and the ongoing „troubles” in early 20th century Dublin.

Riders to the Sea by John M. Synge

It is surely. There was a man in here a while ago – the man sold us that knife – and he said if you set off walking from the rocks beyond, it would be seven days you’d be in Donegal.

Spreading the News by Lady Gregory

Spreading the News is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, 27 Dec. 1904. It was on a double bill with William Butler Yeats’s Cathleen Ni Houlihan. Audiences may have dozed through Yeats’s play, but Spreading the News was very successful and it is still acted at the Abbey Theatre as late as 1961. Lady Gregory remarked after seeing an early performance of the play that „the audience would laugh so much at “Spreading the News” that they lost about half the dialogue. I mustn’t be so amusing again!”

Shadow and Substance by Paul Vincent Carroll

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