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The Playboy of the Western World review " Nicola Coughlan serves comedy and tragedy in pub drama

by Arifa Akbar

Lyttelton theatre, LondonCoughlan plays a barmaid, alongside Derry Girls co-star Siobhán McSweeney, in JM Synge's 1907 classic Every woman loves a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. Here it is tested when Christy Mahon walks into a pub to confess he has killed his father with a farming tool. It's not quite the truth but he is, to his own surprise, turned into a local celebrity. Women flock to see him and men hail him…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48am on December 12, 2025