McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West

ISBN-13: 9780413713506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

UK) McDonagh Martin (Playwright

Opis

Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in London and New York and have garnered numerous awards including four Tony Award nominations for Best Play. Since the debut of The Beauty Queen of Leenane in 1996, his work has been heralded for capturing the dark humor and zeitgeist of postmodern rural Ireland.
Plays include: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Skull of Connemara and Lonesome West.

Spis treści

The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull of Connemara; The Lonesome West

O autorze

Martin McDonagh is a London-born Irish playwright whose first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was the 1996 winner of the George Devine Award. It also won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Fringe Play and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. The play was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. Since then McDonagh has gone on to write multiple smash-hit shows and films and win multiple awards including an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for Six Shooter (2005), an Oscar nomination, a British Independent Film Award for best screenplay, an Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Film Script and a BAFTA for best original screenplay, all for In Bruges (starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, 2008), and a Laurence Olivier award for Best New Play for The Pillowman (won 2004).