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The Cripple of Inishmaan
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 Leenanewhile confirming his place in a tradition that extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.
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 Leenanewhile confirming his place in a tradition that extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.
Book Details
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publish Date: Aug 2nd, 2013
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.00in - 0.40in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9781472530172
- Categories: • Drama• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
McDonagh, Martin: - Martin McDonagh is a London-born Irish playwright whose first play The Beauty Queen of Leenanewas the 1996 winner of the George Devine Award. It also won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Fringe Play and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. The play was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. Since then McDonagh has gone on to write multiple smash-hit shows and films and win multiple awards including an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for Six Shooter(2005), an Oscar nomination, a British Independent Film Award for best screenplay, an Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Film Script and a BAFTA for best original screenplay, all for In Bruges (starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, 2008), and a Laurence Olivier award for Best New Play for The Pillowman(won 2004).
Praise for this book
McDonagh's play wittily exposes the multiple layers of myth that surround Ireland.
Guardian
Guardian
McDonagh is a writer with a gift for scorching entertainment.
London Evening Standard
London Evening Standard
McDonagh is a master technician -- he can whip up larger-than-life yet convincing characters and situations faster than any of his peers...he's expert at creating laugh-aloud comedy out of private cruelty. But if, to put it mildly, compassion has never been his strong suit, this is his play which most elicits genuine empathy.
Variety
Variety