The Cripple of Inishmaan - Modern Plays

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran . No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. As news of his audacity ripples through his rumour-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order. With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh fulfilled the promise of his award-winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Mcdonagh, Martin (Playwright McDonagh
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2013
• EAN: 9781472530172
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-3017-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 191 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Methuen Drama; Modern Plays; Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, DRAMA / General, Theaterwissenschaft - Theatertheorie, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Dramatik, Irische Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch