Word: mcdonagh
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...LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE A feared IRA terrorist loses his cat. Mayhem ensues. In his latest take on the casual perversity of the rural Irish character, Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West) comes closer to self-parody than is probably advisable, as the body count (well, body-part count) exceeds that of all his other plays put together. Still, it's a bravura black comedy that shows off one of the most original and seductive voices in theater today...
...said DeLong, who is also a former research associate at Harvard. She said another reason homeless people sometimes refuse shelter and help from case managers is that they do not want others to direct their daily existence. A clinical instructor in housing law at Harvard Law School, Maureen E. McDonagh, expressed exasperation over funding cuts for critical social service programs that sustain those on the verge of homelessness. “When I started my job 10 years ago, I thought programs that helped the homeless had been cut to the bone. I just hadn’t realized they...
...voters went for meaningfully angry over emotionally adorable-not just with Crash and supporting actress Weisz (as the martyred activist in The Constant Gardener) but in two of the short-film categories. The prize for Live Action Short went to the contentious Six Shooter, written by English playwright Martin McDonagh-a three-time Best Play nominee on Broadway who probably couldn?t have imagined he?d win an Oscar before he got a Tony. And in the Animated Short category, the award went not to the Pixar cartoon One Man Band but to John Canemaker?s The Moon...
...PILLOWMAN, by Martin McDonagh...
...Anyone worried that Broadway has no room for anything but tourist-friendly comfort food could only marvel at the arrival of this hair-raising drama from McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane). A writer of sadistic children's stories is thrown into prison on suspicion of committing a string of grisly child murders, in a play so intense and disturbing that some critics (and many in the audience) tried to pass it off as a comedy...