IMAGINE A radical new production of The Playboy of the Western World. The director decides that some of the critics of the play in 1907 were right after all. They maintained that Synge was an outsider to the rural culture he purported to depict, and ended up dealing, however brilliantly, in romantic archetypes of an exotic peasantry. Our director takes up their implicit challenge and hires a Mayo writer to revise Syn…
SOURCE: The Irish Times at 06:38AM on April 16, 2012