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Oct 23, 2008

Tell It Lovely: DRUID’s Synge Two-Fer @ The Kennedy Center

Simon Boyle insists upon due and proper credit for his daddy-killin’ in DRUID’s Playboy of the Western World. Photo by Nick Burchell. It’s already a cliché – or perhaps a symptom of our diseased, decaying age – that getting shot is nowadays regarded as a smart career move (see Curtis James Jackson III, DBA Fifty Cent). Time was, if a young buck wanted to make a name for himself, he had to kill somebody….

 
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