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...already caused a sensation in London, where four of his plays have been staged to wide acclaim in the past two years. One of them, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, opened off-Broadway in 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...
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...
...Peace in Ireland was not necessarily inevitable. As a special feature, TIME Daily looks at the red-eyed men who achieved...
...world suddenly gone sane. And one of the nicer features of peace in Northern Ireland, surely, is that we won't have to sit through any more Brad Pitt-as-an-IRA-hard-guy stinkers. A peace dividend never smelled so sweet...
...mayhem' (Liam Neeson) who virtually invented modern urban guerilla warfare and liberated at least the southern portion of the Emerald Isle from British rule. Don't worry about the history part--the fudges are minor, and it's great fun to watch as Neeson fights the British for Ireland and Aidan Quinn for the love of Julia Roberts...