MARTIN MCDONAGH   (1970 - )


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Plays by Martin McDonagh

MARTIN MCDONAGH
Banshees Of Inisheer, The
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The
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1996
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1996
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Play/Drama
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2
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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 ageing mother, whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play's terrifying dénouement.
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Cripple Of Inishmaan, The
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1996
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1997
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Play/Drama
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5
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4
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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. But 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
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Lieutenant Of Inishmore, The
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2001
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2001
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2
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'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.
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Lonesome West, The
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1997
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1997
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Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without the most 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
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Mamturk Rifleman, The
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Pillowman, The
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2003
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Faber & Faber, London
2003
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1
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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
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MARTIN MCDONAGH
Skull In Connwemara, A
1st Produced:
1997
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1997
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3
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1
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Despite the fact that he saw his wife die at the wheel of their car, Mick Dowd coped with the inquests and can live with the persistent local rumours. But Mick is also the local grave digger and, when the village graveyard is full, he is the one who has to dig to make room for the new tenants. The trouble is, this time, more than old bones come to the surface.
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