 Synge's next play, "The Well of the Saints", was staged at the Abbey in 1905, again to nationalist disapproval, and then in 1906 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.The critic Joseph Holloway claimed that the play combined "lyric and dirt".The play widely regarded as Synge's masterpiece, "The Playboy of the Western World", was first performed at the Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907.