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The Playboy of the Western World. (South Street Theater, New York City)
From: The Nation
Date: 19901217
Author:Disch, Thomas M.
The Playboy of the Western World
By a happy coincidence the Irish Repertory Theatre mounted a production of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, at the South Street Theatre. The coincidence lies in the remarkable correspondence between the plots of Playboy and Six Degrees of Separation. Each play satirizes a society that welcomes and then rejects a duplicitous outsider, whose entree to that society is a lie he's told about his father. (Synge's Christy Mahon claims to have murdered his.) Even the endings are similar, with the woman who'd most taken a fancy to the ...
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