" fails to animate his character's amazement at finding his fortunes so reversed." Henry Hitchings in the Evening Standard thinks so too. "The cast catch the flights of Synge's dramatic language but fail to keep their feet on the ground," says Ian Shuttleworth.
"If the casting were designed to attract a television audience, goodness knows what it will make of this gurning caricature." Claudia Pritchard leads the charge in the Independent on Sunday: "As the central character Christy, Robert Sheehan … is out of his depth in this," she says. Robert Sheehan is famous for playing one of the Misfits on TV here, some say, he plays one less deliberately. Most other reviews hover, likewise, around the good-but-not-great mark.Īnother part of the problem – at least to some eyes – is the lead. "Synge's play is part of the problem," suggests Michael Billington, blaming it for why this "perfectly creditable revival … never achieves the right ecstatic quality".
Since then, however, it has been installed in the repertoire – because it's brilliant, yes, but also because people like the riots story. O ne 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.
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