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The former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe known to have gained the victory of magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan. Radcliffe plays the title role in a Michael Grandage-directed production of McDonagh's scandalous tragicomedy at London's Noel Coward Theatre.

First staged in 1996, the play is a disorderly dark take on Irish identity from the writer-director of plays inclusive of The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, as well as the movies In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths.

Radcliffe stars as Billy, a 17-year-old orphan on a remote island in 1930s Ireland, who observes a fortune of escape from a life of boredom and mockery when an American film crew arrives on a neighbouring island to shoot the film Man Of Aran. The 23-year-old actor had to master the part's taxing physical demands, its emotional shifts as well as a strong Irish accent.

Furthermore, Michael Billington from The Guardian's said on Wednesday the performance proved that Radcliffe is a fine stage actor with a gift for playing social outsiders, while Times of London critic Libby Purves praised his still, melancholy intensity and resolve.

Image Source: The Cripple of Inishmaan

(AW:Samrat Biswas)