It’s 1952 – Peggy runs a small bar in the sleepy village of Mayaro. Mikey, her father, is about to set out, well-soused on rum, for a wake with his fisherman friends. It is the eve of Trinidad’s Discovery Day celebrations, and the villagers are looking forward to tomorrow’s Calypso competition on the beach.

Out of the darkness a mysterious stranger stumbles into the rum shop. With a voice like honey – tantalising the girls, he tells a terrible story. As he weaves his magic spell on Peggy, her forthcoming nuptials to Stanley are thrown into doubt, and the village is in uproar.

While the women vie for this stranger’s attention, the men plot his downfall. Will the “Playboy” win the Calypso competition or will events conspire to unmask his wild tales of derring -do?

Based on the Irish Classic The Playboy Of The Western World by John Millington Synge, Mustapha Matura’s hilarious reinvention Playboy Of The West Indies has been delighting audiences and critics alike world-wide for over 35 years.

And now bursting with songs this classic play has been transformed into a glorious NEW Musical: a toe-tapping, finger-snapping score with romantic ballads all firmly rooted in the Caribbean by Clement Ishmael (Five Guys Named Moe, Aint’ Misbehaving and The Lion King) and Dominique Le Gendre (Royal Opera House, Shakespeare Globe Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company) with co-direction from Mustapha Matura’s friend and collaborator, Nicolas Kent (Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry, The Colour Of Justice and Tricycle Theatre).