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From: Artforum
Date: 20070201
Author:Smallwood, Christine
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'Playboy' After Dark
FEBRUARY 5-11
Peace at last returned m to Dublin one hundred years ago this week after the riots that greeted the Dublin debut of J. M. SYNGE's The Playboy of the Western World. Apparently, the word shift (petticoat) was so provocative, so exciting, that only an ax-wielding callboy could stop the crowd from taking the stage. Imagine what they would have clone to Stravinsky!... MILAN KUNDERA comes onstage with his sevenpart essay on the novel, The Curtain. A film adaptation is unlikely, given how Mr. Kundera found the last movie of his work ...
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