Browse by category
Beauty Queen Of Leenane (the) by Mcdonagh Martin
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. 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 man ...Show more
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Methuen Drama Student Edition
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 ...Show more
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Plays
A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of revenge.The second play in Martin McDonagh ...Show more
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Student Editions
'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore Pushing theatre to its limits, McDonagh is making a serious point a work as subversive as those Synge and O'Casey plays that sparked Dublin riots in the last century' Guardian 'A brave satire Swiftia ...Show more
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
A writer of short stories is in police custody. He doesn't know why he is being held but assumes it must be something to do with the fact that many of his stories involve children being killed and tortured. As the play unfolds, the police tell him that someone is enacting his stories.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
Category: Film & Tv
After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle bet ...Show more
0 - 6 of 7