Word: inishmaan
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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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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