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HIT IVER THE HEAD BY `PADDYWACK'

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From: Rocky Mountain News
Date: 20020315
Author:Lisa Bornstein

It's become axiomatic in the theater that Ireland is no longer a bucolic land of green meadows, lovely lasses and old folks full of wisdom. J.M. Synge began dispelling our fantasies, and a century of playwrights have followed. For Northern Irish, life's even tougher, as Daniel Magee's Paddywack demonstrates.

Rather than those cliched settings of Irish pubs or village homes, Paddywack takes place in London, a melting pot hitting its boiling point among poor Protestants who resent the unending flood of immigration. It's also a city where the Northern Irish are as suspect as a Palestinian in Tel ...

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