The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge. The author's only comedy, it is set on a roadside near a chapel in rural Ireland. As the title suggests, the main characters are Irish Tinkers.
It received its first production in London in 1909,Yeats attended this performance and walked out after the first act. W. B. Yeats having decided not to present it at the Abbey, as it was likely to antagonize Catholic and nationalist sensibilities already outraged by The Playboy of the Western World (1907).
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