Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock may have first been performed at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924, but a century later, his tragicomedy resonates more strongly than ever. Set in a squalid ...
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He makes Boyle a figure of pathetic ridicule; an idiot man-child full of spluttering cowardly bombast who runs away squealing from his long-suffering wife, Juno. Rylance doesn’t shrink from ...
He and Paul Hilton's Joxer make a fine comic double act (Rylance sporting a Chaplinesque tash) as they josh, lie and tumble over each other like puppies to escape the ire of the long-suffering Juno.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple and Rhys Ifans also star in the interspecies bromance, which pits the central duo against a deadly threat from the alien’s home planet.