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Juno and the Paycock

American  
[pay-kok] / ˈpeɪ kɒk /

noun

  1. a play (1924) by Sean O'Casey.


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Well, I love this one but outside of Succession, I adored Juno and the Paycock in the off-Broadway production.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2019

While working on a book about the actor, the biographer Alexander Larman had a glimpse of screen versions of the Seán O’Casey play Juno and the Paycock, and Chekhov’s work Uncle Vanya.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2017

Rarely has a people's sorrow been sounded with such resonant purity as it is in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock.

From Time Magazine Archive

A modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has much that is indi vidual, and at its best evokes the vernacular glories of Juno and the Paycock.

From Time Magazine Archive

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