Word: inishmaan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...February (in the original production staged by London's Royal Court and Ireland's Druid Theatre) and drew such ecstatic reviews that its six-week run was sold out within 24 hours; the show will transfer to Broadway later this month. A second McDonagh play, The Cripple of Inishmaan, opens this week at the Public Theater, in a new production directed by Broadway veteran Jerry Zaks. Friends warned McDonagh against trying to make his U.S. debut with a double splash, but he dismisses the concerns with a smile that could be read either as naivete or arrogance: "I like...
With The Cripple of Inishmaan--part of a separate trilogy set in rural Ireland--McDonagh expands his palette; the play has more characters, a richer story line and, at least in Zaks' production, more comedy. The bored residents of an island off the west coast of Ireland are in a tizzy when a Hollywood director, Robert Flaherty, arrives to film the documentary Man of Aran. Billy, the cripple of the title (Ruaidhri Conroy, who played the role in London), is deluded enough to think he might get a part in the movie. Or maybe not so deluded. The plot...
There's a slant to the door in Bob Crowley's set for The Cripple of Inishmaan, Martin McDonagh's play at the Royal National's Lyttelton Theatre, that might suggest rustic simplicity or rustic imprecision or perhaps the way in which even the most robust structures can shift and settle with time. It's not that the door doesn't work perfectly well, opening and closing to let in and out characters like Johnnypateenmike, the village gossip, and Billy Claven, the eponymous hero, who wants Babbybobby the ferryman to sail him over to the next island where the great...
...Cripple of Inishmaan is one of a handful of plays by a new generation of young playwrights whose work has captured the attention of the British press and public and is making its presence felt in London this summer. All in their 20s and early 30s, they are seen as part of a literary "renaissance," which is being widely compared to the angry-young-man generation of British playwrights that emerged in the years just after World War II. Together they seem to be changing the theatergoing habits of a decade, attracting young audiences and inculcating the idea that going...
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