The Playboy of the Western World

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS

(1907)

PERSONS IN THE PLAY

First performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, January 26, 1907.

CHRISTOPHER MAHON

 

OLD MAHON (his father, a squatter)

 

MICHAEL JAMES FLAHERTY, called MICHAEL JAMES (a publican)

MARGARET FLAHERTY, called PEGEEN MIKE (his daughter)

 

WIDOW QUIN (a woman of about thirty)

 

SHAWN KEOGH (her cousin, a young farmer)

 

PHILLY CULLEN and JIMMY FARRELL (small farmers)

 

SARA TANSEY, SUSAN BRADY, and HONOR BLAKE (village girls)

 

A BELLMAN

 

SOME PEASANTS

 

The action takes place near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo. The first Act passes on an evening of autumn, the other two Acts on the following day.