Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

I don’t know this play at all so went in with no preconceptions and just the knowledge that Nicola Coughlan was leading as Pegeen, a young woman trapped in a miserable life surrounded by drunken and foolish men.  In this iteration at least, it's a weird play tonally, lurching from drama to comedy and then into melodrama.  To add to the challenge, there was a definite choice to have the cast speaking in rich Irish accents, so the main conversation I heard on the way out to get an icecream in the interval was people discussing how much they had (or hadn’t) understood.   The main plot is that a stranger arrives in this tough, wet, tight knit rural community, telling tall tales of heroism. When he arrives it stops raining and the sun comes out and Pegeen, the local widow  Quin (a tough Siobhán McSweeney), along with all of the local womenfolk are very smitten with this young man. However, the local men are not so impressed with Christy (Éanna Hardwicke), this newcom...