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'Playboy' sweeps into town: BLACK COMEDY TAKES STAGE AT SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZ.
From: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
Date: 20070822
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Byline: Karen D'Souza
Aug. 22--"The Playboy of the Western World" set off riots in the streets of Dublin at its debut a hundred years ago.
J.M. Synge's portrait of Irish villagers as small-minded, loudmouthed blackguards denouncing each other all the way to the gallows seemed like a stain on the reputation of the Irish people in 1907. The Irish nationalists were offended by its "immorality."
Nowadays, however, different echoes can be heard in Synge's pitch-black comedy of the unmannered. The playwright may have set his satirical masterpiece in a remote patch of ...
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