Watching The Lieutenant of Inishmore you get the feeling that everyone on stage is having a good time. That might just be down to the darkly comic script as pen...
After a sell-out stint at the Royal Court this autumn, Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen continues to delight West End audiences at the Wyndham’s Theatre with its illus...
Hangmen, staged in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, presents Martin McDonagh’s first published play since 2010, and is a long-awaited return. The p...
Artists’ rights and principles are complicated issues. It’s tempting to take Katurian, the writer imprisoned by a totalitarian regime in The Pillowman, as a sta...
I’ve never really been all that enthralled by Shakespeare’s comedies. Give me a meaty King Lear or Macbeth any day, dripping with blood and venom, than the li...
Misery, turmoil, lies, more misery, and a bit of onstage torture thrown in for good measure. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is not a happy play. In fact, Martin Mc...