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Martin McDonagh

    March 26, 1970

    While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh filled houses in New York and London, earning prestigious theatre accolades. He electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. McDonagh's unique style blends dark humor with profound explorations of the human condition. His works remain unforgettable contributions to global drama.

    Martin McDonagh
    The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays
    The Lieutenant of Inishmore
    The pillowman
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    In Bruges
    The Banshees of Inisherin
    • 2022

      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.

      The Banshees of Inisherin
    • 2017
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      "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.

      Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    • 2011

      A Behanding in Spokane

      • 72 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.9(89)Add rating

      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

      A Behanding in Spokane
    • 2011

      Osiřelý západ. The Lonesome West

      • 179 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.6(28)Add rating

      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.

      Osiřelý západ. The Lonesome West
    • 2008

      In Bruges

      • 86 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
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      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.

      In Bruges
    • 2004

      The pillowman

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.3(15482)Add rating

      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.

      The pillowman
    • 2001

      The Lieutenant of Inishmore

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.2(3032)Add rating

      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

      The Lieutenant of Inishmore
    • 1998
    • 1997

      The second in McDonagh's Connemara trilogy of plays. Mick Dowd is hired annually to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, in order to make way for the new arrivals. As the time comes for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours also resurface.

      A Skull in Connemara