What to say about … The Playboy of the Western World
Robert Sheehan's performance in this Irish classic divides reviewers " but everyone agrees that they can't understand a wordOne hundred and four years ago, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, which tells the story of a young man charming Ireland's credulous peasantry, caused riots in Dublin. Since then, however, it has been installed in the repertoire " because it's brilliant, yes, but also beca…