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The Cripple of Inishmaan

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 91 pages

File Size : 46,88 MB

Release : 2013-12-04

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1472522311

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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.



The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 44,23 MB

Release : 2009-05-19

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1408111071

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A Student Edition of McDonagh's dramatic engagement with Republican paramilitaries, first produced by the RSC in 2000.



The Cripple of Inishmaan

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 18,92 MB

Release : 2015-12-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1472532201

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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.



A Behanding in Spokane

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 13,11 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Amputees

ISBN : 9780822224716

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THE STORY: In Martin McDonagh's first American-set play, Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for almost half a century. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we're



The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 43,70 MB

Release : 2013-04-25

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1408173832

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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 potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.



A Skull in Connemara

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 95 pages

File Size : 35,91 MB

Release : 2014-07-10

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1472539249

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Winner 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; Winner 1996 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for new arrivals. As the time approaches for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours regarding his involvement in her sudden death seven years ago gradually begin to resurface.



The Lonesome West

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 83 pages

File Size : 13,89 MB

Release : 2014-05-27

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1408119188

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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.



A Very Very Very Dark Matter

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : Faber & Faber

Page : 86 pages

File Size : 15,99 MB

Release : 2018-11-08

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0571346928

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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 premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in October 2018.



Hangmen

Author : Martin McDonagh

Publisher : Faber & Faber

Page : 113 pages

File Size : 35,5 MB

Release : 2015-10-01

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0571328881

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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.



Stage-Play and Screen-Play

Author : Michael Ingham

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 46,80 MB

Release : 2016-12-08

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 131755521X

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Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined. Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer is grounded in relevant, applied contexts. Michael Ingham draws upon the growing field of adaptation studies to present case studies ranging from Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan and RSC Live’s simulcast of Richard II to F.W. Murnau’s silent Tartüff, Peter Bogdanovich’s film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, and Akiro Kurosawa’s Ran, highlighting the multiple interfaces between media. Offering a fresh insight into the ways in which film and theatre communicate dramatic performances, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars of stage and screen.