De Anglo-Ierse toneelschrijver Martin McDonagh vulde al op jonge leeftijd de zalen in New York en Londen en ontving prestigieuze theaterprijzen. Hij wist het publiek te boeien met zijn sluw geconstrueerde en buitensporige tragikomedies. McDonaghs unieke stijl combineert duistere humor met diepgaande verkenningen van de menselijke conditie. Zijn werken blijven onvergetelijke bijdragen aan het wereldwijde toneel.
What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more?1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Padraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action.
In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children's tales beloved by millions.
"After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder, 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 between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement threatens to engulf the town"--Back cover.
I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit. Don't worry.
THE STORY: In Martin McDonagh's first American-set play, Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for almost half a century. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we're
Příběh bezcitných a malicherných bratrů Valena a Colemana se odehrává na zapadlém irském venkově. Martin McDonagh zde rozehrává svoji jedinečnou "drsnou komedii", naplněnou autorovým drsným, ale trefným humorem. Nezastaví se před ničím, nešetří nikoho. Brilantní dialogy a groteskní nadsázka zobrazují svět nefungujících vztahů i pochybných mravních hodnot. Budete se smát i brečet. Dojemný i drsný, chvílemi až velmi krutý příběh, na nás svou vyhrocenou polohou útočí s nebývalou intenzitou a otázky základních morálních hodnot v nás rezonují ještě velmi dlouho. Jedna z nejznámějších divadelních her anglicky píšícího dramatika Martina McDonagha vychází v bilingvní podobě - originální anglický text je sledován překladem Ondřeje Sokola. Publikace je doplněna doslovem Ondřeje Pilného a výrazným výtvarným doprovodem Nikoly Čulíka.
After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters. While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next, the pair attempt to deal with their feelings over the botched killing.
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.'Sometimes you don't even know what you've been craving until the real thing comes along.' New York Times'McDonagh is more than just a very clever theatrical stylist. His tricks and turns have a purpose. They are bridges over a deep pit of sympathy and sorrow, illuminated by a tragic vision of stunted and frustrated lives.' Fintan O'Toole, Irish TimesMartin McDonagh's searingly brilliant new play premi�res at the National Theatre, London in November 2003.
Who knocked Wee Thomas over on the lonely road in Inishmore, and was it an accident? 'Mad Padraic' will want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves that cat more than life itself
