Since murderers are a novelty, and Christy tells a good story, all the widows and young girls soon fall in love with him, including the pub owner’s spirited daughter Pegeen Mike. Christy Mahon, a young vagrant, enters an isolated pub on the coast of County Mayo and tells the locals he’s a fugitive, having murdered his own father in the family field with a single stroke of a spade. The premise of this once controversial play is a simple one. How can I help but love Ireland? For example, how can you not love a nation that values both popular theater and “Irish womanhood” so highly that a new comedy-with “scandalous” depictions of Irish women-can cause a riot? And, no, I don’t mean a “laugh riot.” I mean a real honest-to-Jesus in-the-theatre riot that lasted over a week, featuring toy trumpets, penny whistles, rotten vegetables, stink bombs, and the summoning of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
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