no kidding

Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:08:12 +0000 

	Now that Seth Dellinger has yielded to the voice of conformity 
	& made his public recantation, one scene comes vividly to my mind.

	When it was first put on in the Abbey Theatre, J.M. Synge's 
	Playboy of the Western World was felt to to be unforgiveably 
	demeaning & offensive to the plain people of Ireland.  The Dubliners 
	of the day expressed their disapproval with a great outburst of 
	tututting, hissing & booing.  One man leapt onto the stage & 
	shook his fist at them:

		`You've disgraced yourselves again,' shouted W.B.Yeats.

	Well, Seth isn't James Millington & I'm no William Butler.

	But there is something depressing in the sight of the frivolous 
	being made to toe the party line of the self-serious.

	Scottie B.