MacDonagh

" By popular demand! "Comedies don't come any blacker than The Pillowman, the spellbinding stunner of a play by Martin McDonagh.....what The Pillowman is about, above all, is storytelling and the thrilling narrative potential of theater itself. Let's make one thing clear: Mr. McDonagh is not preaching the power of stories to redeem or cleanse or to find a core of solid truth hidden among life's illusions. And he is certainly not exalting the teller of stories as a morally superior being." - The New York Times WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE! "I'm a firm believer in making stuff up," he said. "I'm not particularly pessimistic or dark. Am I? Not on a daily basis." He allowed that in his late teens and early 20s "shyness and being alone a lot" made him sad. Little wonder. He had left school and holed up in the family home in a working-class London neighborhood to become a writer. "Now I'm happy to be alone," he said. He hints at unhappy relationships in the past and won't say if there's someone in his life right now. When his mother tells him she wishes he'd write "a nice romantic comedy or something," he reminds her of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore." "It was romantic. It's funny. Everyone dies, but it's kind of like life." - Martin McDonagh




Belgian Theatre Company production Repetitieopnames van de kreupele van Inishmaan. Opvoering in theater Playerwater. April - Mei 2008 www.playerwater.be Ahmet Levendoğlu /Inishmaan'ın Sakatı / İstanbul Devlet Tiyatrosu The PLAID Squad gives you a behind the scenes look at NAU Theatre's production of The Cripple of Inishman. A trailer from a theatre production, Svartur köttur - The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, directed by Magnus Geir Thordarson. A production of Leikfelag Akureyrar, Akureyri Theatre company, Akureyri, Iceland, www.leikfelag.is A scene from the play featuring actor Warren O'Reilly as a drug dealer tortured for selling pot to children in a small Irish community. Visit Warren's website at www.WarrenOreilly.com Send him email at Warren@WestCoastActors.com Actors Theatre presents the bloody comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh. Sep 14-30 at the Herberger. www.actorstheatrePHX.org

 
 
Ann Dillon Farrelly disertation, Ohio State 2004