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

Lyttelton theatre, London Coughlan 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 (…)