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`PLAYBOY' PERFORMANCES NOTABLE

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From: Evansville Courier & Press
Date: 20041111
Author:Press staff writer 464-7520 or [email protected]; Roger McBain, Courier &

Murder is a remarkable self-esteem builder in the University of Southern Indiana Theatre's latest production.

It's also an athletic-enhancing steroid and potent love potion and the hefty down payment on a new lease on life for Christy Mahon, the title character in J.M. Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World."

And it's all blarney in this celebrated comedy of possibilities presented as a fresh face making a fresh start in a new setting.

Director Elliot Wasserman's cast of students and community players shoveled it on in Wednesday's 1 3/4 -hour performance, playing to an audience of 92, ...

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