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Lieutenant of Inishmore, The

  • Martin McDonagh
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1990s
  • 7M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780413765000

"Come on in ahead of yourselves. I'm just in the middle of shooting me Dad."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
"Come on in ahead of yourselves. I'm just in the middle of shooting me Dad." Who knocked Mad Padraic's beloved cat over on a lonely road on the island of Inishmore- and was it an accident? He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than life itself. 

REVIEWS:

"...cunningly constructed, deeply and intensely felt, bitterly blood curdling and breathtakingly funny."

Sunday Times (London)

"McDonagh waves the strands of his plot together with superb panache and his dialogue is a joy, full of debunking humor that reveals the terrorists in their absurdly dim true colors."

Daily Telegraph (London)

"You can't imagine how many dramatic developments, how much horror, how much comedy, McDonagh spins as a consequence of [a] cat's death... his blackest, funniest, most violent, most absurd play to date."

Financial Times (London)

"The plot is so sublime, the script so witty and the twist at the end so clever that I was won over."

 The Stage (London)

Premiere Production: Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, The Pit and later The Garrick, London in 2001/2002.
  • Casting: 7M, 1F

M7 (17, young, middle age)
F1 (16)

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'Come on in ahead of yourselves. I'm just in the middle of shooting me Dad.' Who knocked Mad Padraic's beloved cat over on a lonely road on the island of In'shmore- and was it an accident? He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than life itself. Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, The Pit and later The Garrick, London in 2001/2002.

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