Simon Boyle insists upon due and proper credit for his daddy-killin’ in DRUID’s Playboy of the Western World. Photo by Nick Burchell.

It’s already a cliché – or perhaps a symptom of our diseased, decaying age – that getting shot is nowadays regarded as a smart career move (see Curtis James Jackson III, DBA Fifty Cent). Time was, if a young buck wanted to make a name for himself, he had to kill somebody.

That’s the premise of The Playboy of the Western World anyway, Irishman John Millington Synge’s delightful 101-year-old play, which secured his reputation before he took his mortal bow at the tender age of 37. DRUID, the Galway-based theatre company, is performing the feature-length Playboy along with a quick Synge one-act, The Shadow of the Glen, at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre through Saturday night only. Closing-night tickets are gone, leaving you with two opportunities to catch the double-bill – and catch it ye should, surely!