The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh

The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh

Original Title: The Lonesome West ISBN: 0822216663 ISBN13: 9780822216667 Autor: Martin McDonagh Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars (1931) counts Original Format: Unknown Binding, 60 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, DJVU, iBook. Published: January 1st 1999 / by Dramatists Play Service / (first published 1997) Language: English Genre(s): Plays- 43 users Drama- 13 users Plays >Theatre- 10 users European Literature >Irish Literature- 3 users Literature >20th Century- 2 users

Description: The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre Company and Royal Court coproduction in the summer of 1997, and is the final part of McDonagh’s trilogy set in an fictionalized and impoverished western Ireland village called Leenane. Its substantial themes and textured controversy make it a popular choice to study—the Catholic Church is exposed as irrelevant and powerless and the characters have a dangerously skewed sense of morality. The text is full of McDonagh’s characteristic combination of farce, aggression, and wit. The plot follows two brothers, Valene and Coleman, living alone in their father’s house after his recent death. They find it impossible to exist without massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of topics. Only Father Welsh, the young local priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into vicious and bloody carnage. Martin McDonagh is the most controversial Irish dramatist working today, with his explorations of Irish national identity that look at the darker side of provincial life. His bleak but blackly comic portrayal of modern, rural Ireland courts debate with its dark farce, caricatures of violence and barbarism, and an exaggerated, poeticized dialect of Hiberno-English.

About Author:

While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh filled houses in New York and London, was showered with the theatre world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies.

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