id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6777 The Playboy of the Western World - Wikipedia .html text/html 2549 239 75 The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. Fisher translated it into German as Der Held (literally 'hero') des Westerlands[3] or Der Held der westlichen Welt and had it published by Georg Müller and performed at Max Reinhardt's Kammerspiele, Berlin, at the Neue Wiener Bühne in Vienna and at the Stadttheater in Münster.[4] In 1973 the Irish language national theatre group Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe produced an adaptation in the Irish language by Seán Ó Carra entitled Buachaill Báire an Domhain Thiar.[5][6] The play was adapted in 1984 by Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura, lifted out of turn of the century Ireland and set down in 1950s Trinidad, and retitled Playboy of the West Indies. In June 2018, a new feature-length film production entitled Christy Mahon Playboy of the Western World[9] was registered by Swiss producers on IMDB. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6777.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6777.txt