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THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20041103
Author:Feingold, Michael

Synge's play once caused riots; this time it's mostly yawns

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

By J.M. Synge

NYU's Jack H. Skirball Center

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Beware of poetry," said the Belgian playwright Chelderode, "that announces itself with placards." Nowhere could that be truerthan in putting onstage the works of John Millington Synge, whose contribution to the 20th-century Irish Renaissance was a series of plays in which the poetry is precisely the unannounced kind-spontaneous, realistically based, and casually spoken as an only slightly more emphatic form of everyday speech. Dublin's Abbey Theatre ...

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