It's easy to mistake the first half-hour of Conor McPherson's 2006 West End and Broadway hit for a hangover from the in-yer-face era. Once McPherson's metaphysical fascinations kick in, however, this furious tale of five booze-sodden men holed up in an Irish cottage playing poker on Christmas Eve becomes a matter of life and death.
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