Playboy coming to Ga. Southern

Gary Dartt staging famous Irish play at the Black Box Theater

Georgia Southern University professor Gary Dartt presides over a dress rehearsal of "The Playboy of the Western World" John Millington Synge. The play will be Dartt's last as a director for the university.

060810 PLAYBOY 02web — Georgia Southern University professor Gary Dartt presides over a dress rehearsal of "The Playboy of the Western World" John Millington Synge. The play will be Dartt's last as a director for the university.

Unlike the reception for its original production in Ireland in 1907, the Georgia Southern theatre department’s production of John Millington Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World" should receive many more laughs and very little, if any, controversy. "There was a great deal of controversy when it was first produced," Gary Dartt, director of the production and professor at Georgia Southern, said. "There were riots that went on for weeks.

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