Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater is where dramatic classics are reduced to instant ruins. Plays that have weathered the test of time crumble before this company's demolition crews of sub-par actors, inept directors and mindless miscasting. Even under this grievous assault, the greatest plays invariably salvage something of themselves. Lesser and somewhat fragile dramas, like The Playboy of the Western World, are bulldozed into poetic rubble.
This is John Millington Synge's centennial. That fact apparently inspired the current revival of Playboy, if revival it may be called, since it more nearly resembles a wake. The play is both simple and symbolic. Young...
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