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...TITLE: PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES...
...most popular play, which is enjoying a sterling production off- Broadway, Matura uses as his model Synge's finest work, The Playboy of the Western World. The 1921 original was set in County Mayo, in Ireland's remote rural west. The rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura...
...story of Playboy of the West Indies is the same as Synge's. A young man wanders into town on the run after having killed his father. Instead of condemning him, men admire his virility and women court him. When it is revealed that he only wounded his father, they turn on him as a fraud. The adulation makes emotional sense if one sees parricide as a metaphor for rebellion against a political patriarchy. The rage at the hero's failure is a mix of thwarted longing for excitement and dashed hopes for social change...
...people who are going to read this magazine are the same [teenagers] who play around with their cable TV box trying to tune in static on the Playboy channel," said Adam D. Taxin...
...fighting for abortion rights in 1965 when Gloria Steinem was a Playboy bunny," he said...