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What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no
more? 1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the
island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Padraic
and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action. Winner:
Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022. Nominated: Best
Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.
"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of
the 21st century" (The New Republic) In 1934, the people of
Inishman learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is
coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of
Aran. No-one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy
whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a
girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the
sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples
thorugh his rumour-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan
becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and
mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order. With this bleak
yet uproariously funny play, the young Anglo-Irish dramatist Martin
McDonagh fulfills the promise of his award-winning The Beauty Queen
of Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that extends
from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.
Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin,
London and New York. They have created excitement and have won
numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among
Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane
Trilogy, one of the great events of the contemporary Irish theatre'
(Irish Times). This volume contains: The Beauty Queen of Leenane -
'McDonagh's writing is pitiless but compassionate: he casts a cold,
hard, but understanding eye on relationships made of mistrust,
hesitation, resentment and malevolence' (Sunday Times); A Skull in
Connemara - 'Here, McDonagh's gift is at its most naked and
infectious ...it leaves you giddy with gruesome exhilaration'
(Financial Times); The Lonesome West: 'The play combines manic
energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and
viscerally exciting' (Daily Telegraph)"A star is born, bright and
blazing, confident, individual and shockingly accomplished" (Sunday
Times)
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director
Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his
documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an
unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at
cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is
determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. As news of
his audacity ripples through his rumour-starved community, The
Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so
comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its
order. With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh
fulfilled the promise of his award-winning The Beauty Queen of
Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that extends from
Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan. This Student Edition, complete
with plot summary and scholarly notes, is edited by Dr. P.J.
Mathews of University College Dublin.
After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray
and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town
of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry
Waters. While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next,
the pair attempt to deal both with their feelings over the botched
killing and their differing attitudes towards this curious,
otherworldly place they've been dumped in ('Bruges is a shithole.'
'Bruges is not a shithole'), until the call from Harry finally
comes through, and all three men are enmeshed in a spiral of bloody
violence that few will get out of alive. This jet-black comedy
marks the feature-film debut of writer/director Martin McDonagh,
award-winning author of such plays as The Beauty Queen of Leenane,
The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman, and the film Six
Shooter, which won the Academy Award for the Best Live-Action Short
Film. The film stars Colin Farrell as Ray, Brendan Gleeson as Ken,
and Ralph Fiennes as Harry. In Bruges was the opening night film at
the Sundance Film Festival.
I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham,
Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best
hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging?
Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to
hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with
a very different motive for his visit. Don't worry. I may have my
quirks but I'm not an animal. Or am I? One for the courts to
discuss. Martin McDonagh's Hangmen premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre, London, in September 2015. It won the Laurence Olivier
Award for Best New Play 2016.
Longlisted for the 2017 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Meet Sonny
Anderson: budding author, ex-meth-head, neurotic and Shaun of the
Dead obsessive, about to tip headlong into adulthood. Sonny doesn t
remember his mother because his father, Guru Bim, kidnapped him at
the age of five and took him from his home in Scotland to a commune
in Brazil. Since the age of eleven he has lived in Redondo Beach,
California, with his guardian, Thomas, who, on his twenty-first
birthday throws his world wildly off course. Armed with five
mysterious letters and a list of names and addresses of people to
visit, Sonny musters up the courage to leave his troubled past
behind and return to the UK to finally learn the truth about his
childhood. But is it a truth he really wants? From the author of I
Have Waited, and You Have Come and After Phoenix,Narcissism for
Beginners is a fresh and unsentimental take on the universal
struggle of growing up.
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome
content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of
child-murders that are happening in his town. 'Sometimes you don't
even know what you've been craving until the real thing comes
along.' New York Times 'McDonagh is more than just a very clever
theatrical stylist. His tricks and turns have a purpose. They are
bridges over a deep pit of sympathy and sorrow, illuminated by a
tragic vision of stunted and frustrated lives.' Fintan O'Toole,
Irish Times Martin McDonagh's searingly brilliant new play
premieres at the National Theatre, London in November 2003.
'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's
chosen weapons are laughter and gore...Pushing theatre to its
limits, McDonagh is making a serious point...a work as subversive
as those Synge and O'Casey plays that sparked Dublin riots in the
last century' Guardian 'A brave satire...Swiftianly savage and
parodic...with explicit brutal actino and lines which sing with
grace and wit' Observer Who knocked Mad Padraic's cat over on a
lonely road on the island of Inishmore and was it an accident?
He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and
chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than
life itself. The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a brilliant satire on
terrorism, a powerful corrective to the beautification of violence
in contemporary culture, and a hilarious farce. It premiered at the
RSC's The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in May 2001. Commentary
and notes by Patrick Lonergan
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, "The Beauty Queen
of Leenane" tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain
and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative
aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially
last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is
as gothically funny as it is horrific. The Beauty Queen of Leenane
was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre
co-production in January 1996.
In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a
teller of exquisite and fantastic children's tales beloved by
millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic
upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world.
Dangerous, twisted and funny, Martin McDonagh's new play travels
deep into the abysses of the imagination. A Very Very Dark Matter
premieres at the Bridge Theatre, London, in October 2018, and is
sure to travel worldwide.
With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the
Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of
the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British
play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria 'One of
the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have
seen in years' (The Sunday Times) Blasted 'Her dialogue is both
sparse and stunning. They will call her mad, but then they said
that about Strindberg' (Mail on Sunday) Shopping and F***ing 'A
real coup de theatre' (Evening Standard) The Beauty Queen of
Leenane 'The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young
dramatist ...a born storyteller' (New York Times)The result is a
collection of "must reads" that's excellent value for students and
theatre fans alike.
After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case,
Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of
William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his
second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant
for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and
Ebbing's law enforcement threatens to engulf the town. Three
Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comedic drama from
Martin McDonagh. The film won Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best
Screenplay at the Golden Globes 2018, and the Best Film and Best
Original Screenplay awards at the 2018 BAFTAs.
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director
Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his
documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an
unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at
cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is
determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. As news of
his audacity ripples thorugh his rumour-starved community, "The
Cripple of Inishmaan" becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so
comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its
order. With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh
fulfilled the promise of his award-winning "The Beauty Queen of
Leenane "while confirming his place in a tradition that extends
from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.
This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation,
including a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the
dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes,
characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of
suggested reading and questions for further study and a review of
performance history. The Lonesome West was first presented as a
Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer
of 1997, and is the final part of McDonagh's Leenane trilogy. This
edition explores the play's substantial themes and textured
controversy, which make it such a popular choice to study: the
Catholic Church is exposed as irrelevant and powerless and the
characters have a dangerously skewed sense of morality. The text is
full of McDonagh's characteristic combination of farce, aggression
and wit. The plot follows two brothers, Valene and Coleman, living
alone in their father's house after his recent death. They find it
impossible to exist without massive and violent disputes over the
most mundane and innocent of topics. Only Father Welsh, the local
young priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their
petty squabblings spiral into vicious and bloody carnage. Martin
McDonagh is the most controversial Irish dramatist working today,
with his explorations of Irish national identity which look at the
darker side of provincial life. His bleak but blackly comic
portrayal of modern, rural Ireland courts debate with its dark
farce, caricatures of violence and barbarism and an exaggerated,
poeticised dialect of Hiberno-English.
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order.
The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company
and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997. 'The play
combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both
hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily Telegraph Valene and
Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after
his recent death, find it impossible to exist without massive and
violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of topics. Only
father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to try to
reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into
vicious and bloody carnage.
This Student Edition of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of
Leenane features expert and helpful annotation, including a
scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic,
social and political context, and on the themes, characters,
language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested
reading and questions for further study and a review of performance
history. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The
Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen
Folan, a plain and lonely spinster in her early forties, and Mag
her devilishly manipulative ageing mother whose interference in
Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in
motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is
horrific. Maureen might long for the romance that will spirit her
away, but if she goes, who will stir the lumps out of Mag's
Complan? The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid
Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. An
instant classic from its first performance, The Beauty Queen of
Leenane established Martin McDonagh as the natural successor to
Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton. The Oscar and Bafta-winning writer's
other films and plays include In Bruges and The Pillowman.
A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during the
Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare,
rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable
environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of
revenge. Wee Thomas was a friendly cat. He would always say hello
to you were you to see him sitting on a wall. (Pause.) He won't be
saying hello no more, God bless him. Not with that lump of a brain
gone. Who knocked Wee Thomas over on the lonely road on the island
of Inishmore, and was it an accident? "Mad Padraig" will want to
know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip shop
bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves that cat more than life
itself.
Rachel fends for herself in a country brought to its knees. Since
Jason left two years ago, she only ventures beyond the safety of
her storm wall when food supplies dwindle. Her one contact with the
outside world is through Noah, who runs the market. Hoping he might
be the answer to her isolation, she proposes a date. When another
man turns up in Noah's place, she is intrigued and repelled in
equal measure. And when Noah denies all knowledge, she sets out to
track down the stranger. Could this be a new beginning, or is she
being drawn into a dangerous game?
Introduced by Patrick Lonergan, The Methuen Drama Anthology of
Irish Plays brings together five major works from the Irish
dramatic canon of the last sixty years in one outstanding
collection. Behan's The Hostage, depicting the capture and death of
a British soldier by the IRA, was first produced by Joan
Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958 and was declared 'a
masterpiece' by The Times. Murphy's Bailegangaire (1985) portrays a
senile old woman's recitation of an epic tale to her two
granddaughters who struggle to free themselves from her and
exorcise the past. Reid's The Belle of the Belfast City, winner of
the George Devine Award in 1986, examines the tensions present in
three generations of women in a Belfast-Protestant family during
the week of an anti-Anglo-Irish rally. Sebastian Barry's The
Steward of Christendom won the London Critics' Circle Award for
Best Play 1995 and was heralded by the Guardian as 'an authentic
masterpiece'. McDonagh's 1996 play The Cripple of Inishmaan is a
strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling.
McDonagh was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising
Playwright.
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