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McDonagh Plays: 1
The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
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This collection is ideal for readers interested in contemporary theatre, dark comedy, and Irish cultural narratives. Theatre practitioners and fans of intense, character-driven drama will find this volume compelling.
One of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s. His three most important plays in one volume
One of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s. His three most important plays in one volume
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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 is hailed as "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).
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
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Praised as "one of the great events of contemporary Irish theatre" (Irish Times), McDonagh's writing is described as "pitiless but compassionate" (Sunday Times) with a talent that "leaves you giddy with gruesome exhilaration" (Financial Times). The plays are noted for their hilarious yet viscerally exciting energy (Daily Telegraph) and hailed as a star-making display of originality and accomplishment (Sunday Times).
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780413713506
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 June 1999
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Martin McDonagh is a London-born Irish playwright whose first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was 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).
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