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ARTS DIARY: THEATRE - The Playboy of the Western World,Royal Exchange,Manchester.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20031105
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Byline: MALCOLM HANDLEY

THEY say voters get the Government they deserve and, to a certain extent, the same is true of plays and audiences -but not in this case. The Playboy of the Western World by J. M.Synge is surely one of the finest pieces of 20thcentury drama -full of poetry,magic,imaginings,fun and heartache. And this is an exceptionally fine production -but one or two of the audience had turned up for the wrong play.

Unplanned laughter is often due to dated dialogue or duff delivery but not with this little bunch; they simply missed the pan to bus or missed the ...

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