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	Martin McDonagh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a contemporary British playwright.
		The story of the disfunctional relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother, during the course of which the former faces her last chance at love, and the latter faces a rather grim end.
		McDonagh has also written The Pillowman (2003), in which a horror writer is interrogated after several local children have been murdered (awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best new play in 2004), and The Mamturk Rifleman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_McDonagh (493 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Martin McDonagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		McDonagh’s use of dispossessed rural Irish characters is reminiscent of J. Synge, whose Playboy of the Western World caused riots outside the Abbey Theatre in Dublin when it first premiered in 1907, as Irish audiences were concerned about its portrayal of the Irish poor as stupid, criminal and brutal.
		McDonagh’s Father Welsh is a flawed character, unable to assert any moral authority over Leenane and confessing to doubts about his faith, but eventually proves himself to be a figure of salvation as he commits suicide to save the warring brothers.
		McDonagh himself has said the motivation behind this play was the IRA bombing of Warrington, in which two boys were killed, and clearly he sees the play as a critique of the unthinking sentimentality of terrorists, reduced here to Padriac’s neurotic love for his cat at the expense of human life.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5811 (2019 words)

	The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh
		McDonagh is not preaching the power of stories to redeem or cleanse or to find a core of solid truth hidden among life's illusions.
		McDonagh's dialogue is fairly sharp and often (darkly) funny.
		Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh was born in 1970.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/dramauk/mcdonm1.htm (1160 words)

	The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Martin McDonagh was born in 1971 to expatriate Irish parents.
		Though brought up in south London, McDonagh's summer vacations were spent in his parents' native Galway, where he was immersed in the language and sound of his Irish ancestry.
		At 27, McDonagh was the youngest playwright to have four plays running simultaneously in London: The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Royal National Theatre and The Leenane Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, and The Lonesome West) at the Royal Court Theatre.
	www.theatrewesternsprings.com /CrippleOfInishmaan.htm (1341 words)

	Drama: Martin McDonagh
		Martin McDonagh is something of a marvel in contemporary theater.
		McDonagh watched a great deal of television and movies while he was beginning to write.
		McDonagh has developed yet another trilogy, this time set on the Aran Islands.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/mcdonagh.htm (548 words)

	American Theater Web - Find theaters, Broadway shows, and musicals
		Martin McDonagh's masterful dark comic play proves that provocative, thoughtful and entertaining drama can still be found on the Great White Way.
		Martin McDonagh's drama with mountains of laughs is the play of the year.
		Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman," which opened last night at the Booth Theatre, is an extraordinary play...
	www.americantheaterweb.com /news/pressbook2.asp?id=5801844 (324 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Theater - A Skull in Connemara
		Martin McDonagh's fl comedy about a gravedigger with a secret is directed to kindle grisly laughs.
		Given the meteoric rise of Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, sputters are to be expected.
		McDonagh is content to let his characters jabber their way into a cartoon corner, drawing on verbal resources he has applied with greater skill elsewhere.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2002/50103_20021125.asp (827 words)

	Lost Playboys of the Western World
		Indeed, McDonagh develops Synge’s own critique of the class-based economic inequalities of the west in which emigration is the fate of many and a desperate search for stimulation in a declining environment the lot of those who remain.
		In this, McDonagh is clearly in line with the analysis advanced by his predecessors in the genre such as M J Molloy or Tom Murphy, for he too sees the west as surviving on the leavings of more prosperous economies; now even that of Ireland’s own Celtic Tiger.
		Those critiques of McDonagh which suggest his collusion with Ireland’s modernising bourgeoisie in confirming the west as the dark hinterland of a past from which it escaped have taken the surface comedy of the plays for their thematic substance.
	www.eng.helsinki.fi /main/news/ESSE5-2000/shaun.richards.htm (565 words)

	School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
		Martin Mc Donagh graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1968 having studied Physical Education and Geography Combined Honours.
		Dr McDonagh is an elected member of the Physiological Society and of the British Association of Sports Sciences.
		Cook CS and McDonagh MJN (1993) Shortening force in electrically stimulated human muscle-tendon complex is enhanced by pre-stretch but is independent of pre-stretch velocity.
	www.sportex.bham.ac.uk /staff/mcdonagh.htm (550 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Martin McDonagh's Irish Beauty
		What is innovative about McDonagh's play is the psychological intensity of his characters and their complex relationship to their squalid surroundings.
		From John Millington Synge and his Playboy of the Western World to Frank McCourt and the recent phenomenon of Angela's Ashes, the theme of impoverished rural Ireland (dubbed "The Genre of Irish Squalor" by one critic) is one that never fails to attract an enthusiastic audience, especially an American one.
		But whatever cliches of class and setting McDonagh may help perpetuate in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, there is no denying the efficacy of his script and the tremendous complexity of his characters.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=102396 (747 words)

	Handicapping Theater: A Look at McDonagh's Cripple
		McDonagh's cineastic leanings, it would seem a forgone conclusion that the author would be very anxious about his first Hollywood close-up.
		While brash and fledgling theater (and McDonagh's work is both these things) is exiting, it cannot hide weak plotting, obvious characterizations, and a reliance on a puzzling mix of modern shock-vulgarity and antiquated sentimentality.
		Other shopworn techniques that McDonagh uses are the Soliloquy-as-Rehearsal trick borrowed perhaps from the "I coulda' been a contender" scene in Scorsese's Raging Bull (which borrowed from On The Waterfront) where Billy's painful admissions turn out to be only his preparations for a Hollywood audition.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/old_issues/0029_handicapping_theater_look_mcdonagh_cripple.html (988 words)

	MCC Theatre - Cripple of Inishmaan / Martin McDonagh's Meteoric Rise
		Martin McDonagh, born of Irish parents, actually grew up in Camberwell, a district in south London.
		(McDonagh's chief exposure to his Irish background was summer holidays spent in Galway.) His father worked in construction and his mother worked as a part-time housekeeper in London until they decided to take up semi-retirement in their native Ireland, which they had left before their youngest son Martin was born.
		Martin left his formal education behind at the age of 16, and found himself enthralled by the world of television and film.
	www.mclennan.edu /departments/a&s/dram/dram_notes/cripple_inishmaan/mcdonagh.php (540 words)

	South Coast Repertory Play Insights - 'The Lonesome West'
		McDonagh has apparently barred all productions of his new work until his favorite play, The Lieutenant of Inishmore is produced (which is part of The Cripple of Inishmaan trilogy).
		McDonagh has also been accused of appropriating the work of writers from Sam Shepard to Tom Murphy and John Millington Synge.
		As McDonagh infuses his plays with multiple examples of matricide, patricide and suicide it reminds us that the very first murder in the history of the world was between brothers, Cain and Abel.
	www.scr.org /season/00-01season/snl00-01/snlss4.html (2129 words)

	USATODAY.com - Guettel, McDonagh share the stage for Tony accolades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		NEW YORK — Martin McDonagh and Adam Guettel have both been described as precocious, quirky, daring and among theater's brightest hopes for the future.
		McDonagh, 35, in contrast, is a working-class Londoner who rose to fame nearly a decade ago with his darkly witty first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which was nominated for a Tony Award in 1998, as was his The Lonesome West the following year.
		Indeed, while McDonagh has been prolific since his breakthrough, completing a pair of acclaimed three-play cycles as well as Pillowman, he insists that he has a hard time getting produced by most London companies — with the notable exception of the National Theatre under current director Nicholas Hytner, a McDonagh champion.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/news/2005-06-02-theater-writers_x.htm (777 words)

	The Pillowman, a CurtainUp review
		That said, McDonagh's move to a different setting is a welcome sign of his growth and development as one of our more interesting young writers.
		Martin McDonagh's plays have been commercially very successful so his latest, The Pillowman is eagerly awaited.
		McDonagh also looks at the part played in imagination of the brutal elements in stories for children, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, or those from Shockheaded Peter, and even Bible stories.
	www.curtainup.com /pillowman.html (1405 words)

	THE WILMA THEATER: From Irish sensation Martin McDonagh - THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN premieres in Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Declared by the Daily Telegraph to be "...perhaps the most promising playwright to have emerged in Britain over the past ten years," McDonagh is the only playwright in history, apart from William Shakespeare, to have had four plays running concurrently in London as he did in 1997.
		Bred in Camberwell, in South London, McDonagh, who a mere five years ago was a clerk in the civil service, says that his work is inspired by voices he hears in his head, those of his Irish uncles talking during family vacations.
		Martin McDonagh's first play in his Connemara trilogy, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, premiered in Galway in February 1996.
	www.wilmatheater.org /newsroom/pressreleases/1999_0209.html (1206 words)

	London theatre tickets Royal Shakespeare Company The Lieutenant of Inishmore play on stage in London's West End Pit ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The award-winning writer Martin McDonagh is pleased to be collaborating with the RSC for the first time on this production.
		To date, Martin's plays have been sold to 39 countries in 28 languages and include: A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West and the Tony Award winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane (The Leenane Trilogy) as well as The Maamturk Rifleman.
		Martin has been awarded the George Devine Award, the 1996 Writer's Guild Best Fringe Play Award, the 1996 Critics' Circle Award and the 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-lieutenant.html (1853 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - The Lieutenant of Inishmore
		Martin McDonagh's latest play seems to be amongst other things an attempt to out-Kane Sarah Kane.
		It is not for the squeamish as, during the course of the play, more eyes are lost than in the whole of Shakespeare and blood-soaked bodies become the norm.
		Martin McDonagh has found almost as many more with which to entertain his audience.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/inishmore-rev.htm (645 words)

	Roundabout Theatre Company - Front & Center Online
		Edelstein: About three years ago I read Martin McDonagh’s trilogy of plays — The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, and The Lonesome West — and although I love all of Martin’s work, I fell in love with this play in particular.
		Martin plays with the cruelties of small-town life—both the overt, violent forms of cruelty and the smaller, littler ones.
		McDonagh loved our production and three of the four Seattle cast members are in the Roundabout production: Zoaunne LeRoy, Kevin Tighe, and Christopher Evan Welch.
	www.roundabouttheatre.org /fc/spring01/grave.htm (1208 words)

	The Wilma Theater: THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN In-Depth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His rapid success is extraordinary, especially when a few years ago, Martin McDonagh was working as a civil servant and sending out unsolicited manuscripts to every production company in the area.
		Although McDonagh was born to Irish parents, he grew up in Camberwell, located in south London; and despite setting his plays in rural Ireland, he actually has not spent extensive amounts of time there.
		I’m more of a London boy than anything else, but you can’t help having those Irish leanings." When McDonagh’s parents semi-retired (his father worked in construction, his mother was a part-time housekeeper) to a village on Ireland’s west coast, they left their two-story row house to their sons John, now 31, and Martin.
	www.wilmatheater.org /productions/1999_inishmaan.html (2327 words)

	Show - Beauty Queen of Leenane
		Indeed, in Martin McDonagh's play "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," the comedy turns darker and deeper as the story unfolds.
		More of the story should not be told because of the secrets and twists in the plot, except to say that playwright McDonagh spins a story that can make one laugh out loud one minute and curl one's hair with horror the next.
		Martin McDonagh is easily the most lauded new playwright and the proverbial overnight success story.
	www.carpentersquare.com /shows/show_beauty_queen.htm (630 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Exhibitionism
		McDonagh's lead character, Billy, represents the opposite: orphaned, physically soft, pensive, cunning.
		Blumensaadt tilts McDonagh's Aran Island of bullies, overbearing mothers, gossip addiction, conversational starvation, and candy brands at the right angle for the audience's cruel pleasure.
		If Martin McDonagh wishes to build on his reputation as a master of theatrical art, he must experiment with language in his subsequent plays.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-12-01/arts_exhibitionism2.html (759 words)

	Unlucky Charms: With its Irish moorings, The Keegan Theatre effectively delivers Martin McDonagh's dark, salty, ...
		While the stereotype of redheaded leprechauns with a short fuse chugging brew at the end of a rainbow is intentionally abandoned in Martin McDonagh's cold and clever Irish plays, his characters, particularly the lonely middle-aged daughter in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, fit into that tempestuous mold quite comfortably.
		Aside from the obvious resentment and hostility the two bear toward each other, Maureen is still a virgin, and when the opportunity finally arrives to free her from passive-aggressive hell, her future is sealed by the insecurities of her paranoid mother.
		McDonagh ultimately constructs The Beauty Queen of Leenane as a long drive on a winding, rocky road up the side of a mountain: the climb bruises and batters your car while you're safely tucked inside.
	www.metroweekly.com /arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=1663 (916 words)

	Indictment of Angelo torres, John Boyle, Jason Martin and Martin McDonagh
		Jason Martin began working for the City in 1993, and was a full-time salaried employee for the City until November 2004.
		It was further part of the scheme that in early 2003, Martin McDonagh submitted paperwork for Elliott to join the HTP to TORRES, at BOYLE’s suggestion.
		McDONAGH said that he had given political contributions over the years but falsely denied that anyone insinuated or suggested to him that he had to make the contributions.
	www.ipsn.org /hired_truck_scandal/Torres-Boyle.ind.htm (6456 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Six Shooter short for Martin McDonagh
		Award-winning Irish playwright Martin McDonagh will make his directorial debut with a 30-minute film called 'Six Shooter'.
		McDonagh recently won his second Olivier Award, taking Best New Play for 'The Pillow Man'.
		McDonagh's work has been sold to over 40 countries and has been translated into over 28 languages.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0512/mcdonaghm.html (165 words)

	Domino Theatre Beauty Queen of Leenane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Martin McDonagh wrote Beauty Queen - his first play - in eight days at the age of 24, and within a year of its premiere in 1996, it was one of four plays by McDonagh playing simultaneously in London's West End.
		It led American drama critic Robert Brustein to hail McDonagh as a major new playwright from a country which has produced more than its share of great dramatists.
		Martin McDonagh was actually born in London, of Irish parents.
	post.queensu.ca /~oosthuiz/domino/beautyqueen.htm (360 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - The Pillowman (RNT Cottesloe)
		Martin McDonagh is the enfant terrible of Irish theatre although his name is more Irish than the man. For the first time, in The Pillowman, he writes a play set elsewhere.
		Just when all seems too awful to be depicted on stage, McDonagh cleverly twists the tail of the play with great dramatic effect.
		Martin McDonagh's plays always have a cruel streak but with acting that may win awards and entertainment of this calibre, the evening can be deemed a pleasure (provided that you can make it past the break).
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/pillowman-rev.htm (462 words)

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