US EditionThe Playboy of the Western World: A strong turn from Nicola Coughlan
Nicola Coughlan leads the National Theatre revival of Synge's 1907 play, praised for lyrical dialogue but critiqued for its structure and mixed design choices.
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London misunderstands The Playboy of the Western World
“An unmitigated, protracted libel upon Irish peasant men, and worse still upon Irish girlhood” – so began one of the original reviews of The Playboy of the Western World when it first premiered in 1907. JM Synge’s comedy-drama of patricide was seen not merely as an affront to public morals, but as an insult to the Irish nation itself. Dublin nationalists were incensed: this was not the rural West of Ireland they chose to imagine, a West untouche…
Review: The Playboy of the Western World at The National
Coughlan is the brightest light in a slightly foggy production Many works of Irish playwrights have long successful runs in London; classics from Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett appear season to season across the capital. A play that sparked a riot – one of the most controversial of its time – was John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, which comes to The National Theatre in a production directed by Caitrion…
Playboy of the Western World - National Theatre, London
Writer: John Millington Synge Director: Caitriona McLaughlin It’s hard to know what effect director Caitriona McLaughlin is hoping to produce with the National Theatre’s revival of Playboy of the Western World; is it satirical comedy or a serious, occasionally poetic drama? Is it a folk-inspired morality tale or a hybrid contemporary examination of glamorous deception? [...] The post Playboy of the Western World – National Theatre, London appear…
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