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Spruced-up Playboy's bursting with comic life; Vampish: Angeline Ball impresses Phelim Drew.(Theater review)
From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20071005
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Byline: ALEX MOFFATT
The Playboy Of The Western World (Abbey Theatre)
Verdict: Synge-sational comedy
REWORKING a classic is a high-risk venture, and this is a particularly radicalreworking. The setting for J.M. Synge's 1907 masterpiece is moved to apresent-day west Dublin pub, and playboy Christy Mahon becomes ChristopherMalomo, a Nigerian asylum seeker. Where the original characters speak in poeticfolk vernacular, these characters mix poetry with effing and blinding.
But Roddy Doyle and Nigerian writer Bisi Adigun's adaptation is a triumph thattakes risks ...
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