This bright calypso musical, a feelgood reboot of Mustapha Matura’s play, features a tremendous cast and sweet duets
s it a musical or is it a play with songs? It’s a moot point and one worth considering because this bright and enjoyable show falls between two stools. In 1984, the lateexported JM Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World from rural County Mayo to a similarly sleepy Trinidad in Playboy of the West Indies. Now, composers Clement Ishmael and Dominique Le Gendre, co-directing with Nicolas Kent, have given Matura’s version a calypso overhaul, complete with a band in the pit.
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