Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner

Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner

Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the long-suffering wife A volley of gunshots at the start signifies the violent backdrop to Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, which takes place during the Irish civil war of 1922-23. But…