Shock and Awe - The works of Martin McDonagh, Part One

This is part of my essay into three parts on the work of Martin McDonagh.

In recent years I've been a fan of dramatic work of Martin McDonagh. I saw two of his plays on Broadway, has seen his film "In Bruges" and read, I like many of his pieces as I could get my hands. I review for Amazon and other places, because of my admiration for his work, blood, and all written. His characters are often awkward and funny. You are entering a job McDonaghprovided black comedy, absurd dialogue, and blood and guts. How can a person inhuman, secondly, in your work? Surprisingly, mean and wicked. View or read McDonagh, and you will experience shock and awe.

"The Cripple of Inishmaan"

I have seen on the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. " This was the game more blood and guts on stage than any other game in memory, the first was a dark scary than playingshocked the audience indifferent New York. Some weak nerves, it was decided to stumble out of the theater shaking. People have been known to show a dwarf.

The game is about ordinary people in a small village in 1934, and one would think that they are assigned and simple. add items to the theater of the absurd, farce, vaudeville, and the silly dialogue to achieve the great comic effect in this piece. Two women who run a grocery store, which seems to beoverflowing with canned peas. There is no doubt that Cripple Billy is a cripple, because the other characters are constantly mentioning it so I called Cripple Billy. Some jokes are stupid, but funny.

Billy looks at cows, herring roe father of Helen Barratt, and Aunt Kate is talking to a stone.

Billy the drawbacks of a sailor in him to a nearby island, where Robert Flaherty shot his "documentary" Man of Aran. Billy goes to Hollywood to find fameand assets.

Johnny Mike Pate, the gossip of the country (names to use characters to confront each other) to find the news and around the village. His mother in her nineties, has been drinking, and hopefully will die. These types of stocks are like stage Irish character.

McDonagh does not intend to realistic representations. This is ridiculous stuff with the characters utter browse vaudeville-like riff. Some of the dialogue seems absurd, absurd, but somehow the plot is movedlong, and the crowd is entertained by this nut case. It 's almost like a hillbilly comedy.

The game has its darker elements because McDonagh let the audience with a happy ending. Violence and cruelty are never far from view. If you play as good as it reads, I'm sure it would be a fun theater.

"The Beauty Queen of Leenane"

This is another black comedy by Martin McDonagh in his growing canon of malice and in the theaterCruelty. He will soon monopolize the market for Make 'Em Laugh, and shock' em kind Irish village. Here a mother and daughter co-exist in the atmosphere are the mutual hatred. The Mag mother is a harpy, a witch, lazy, mischievous, selfish and vicious. His daughter Maureen, frustrated, unstable and is just as vicious, tied with her. A local man Pato Dooley, for states of the tip, Dubs forty years, the Beauty Queen of Leenane Maureen, their tiny Irish villageConnemara.

McDonagh's characters often begin with verbal vulgarity and graduates of physical cruelty of torture, blood and gore. This is a niche for themselves the cause of his audience to crawl and crouch in the lengths it will end up a character or two can be carved. It can be bloody consequences. McDonagh, a sign must learn to duck to avoid the violence and wickedness. In this game, its characters would do well to be wary of cooking oil hot and heavy poker.

HisThe characters often seem simple-minded teetering on the brink of madness, at times speaking in a dialogue absurd nonsense. The playwright blades of his audience seemingly innocuous comic absurdity and cruelty and sadism dark. In his theater of cruelty of human life is negotiable and precarious and often futile.

He is an original, edgy, creative talent can turn off the sick and those easily shocked his audience, but a force in the theater, not to be underestimated.Make public the discomfort, so that you can stir in their seats to be his goal. In this game, less than expected blood and gore in "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," but do not expect much sympathy for the human race. Sick stuff is brilliant in progress. Do not fall asleep in it.

"The Lonesome West"

"The Lonesome West" is one of the first Martin McDonagh about lost west of Ireland, where the author of the islanders to be more isolated,obtuse, barely civil, non-violent and dangerous neighborhood. I remember hearing about the theater of the absurd, theater of the absurd and the theater of cruelty? Here we see them in a new life and settlement in a crazy, kookie and bloody way.

"In Bruges" is shown below, but no less barbaric McDonagh. Since the result of frequent outbreaks of black comedy, farce, farce, and shock and awe.

His characters are the local drinking Poteen Hootch. None of theremember the prisoners of the game is that if the local priest, Father is Welsh or Walsh, but mentally not matter anyway. The only bright lights in McDonagh's plays seems to be good looking, very young local girls, who are independent and do not mind hard to kill cows or hide things.

The priest has a crisis of faith (which must begin no?) And the tendency to drink too much. McDonagh seems to feed on Irish stereotypes. Two brothers, both idiots, live togetherconstantly bickering. One brother has his old offed for a trivial slight. The other brother is silent on this, but only because his brothers all the assets of the family signed it.

If you are screwball characters: two of the three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy in their dialogue reef. We are talking in a ride illogical and absurd dialogue. The brothers play in this fight for stupid things, because both free weights.

What is theThe sense of all this? It 's like Pinter's "Homecoming", but more violent and stupid, but with less importance and art. Pinter digs deeper, is a medium Fisher: McDonagh feeds closer to the surface.

His younger brother, Coleman is frivolous and disrespectful to the priest. The characters are generally irreligious, irreverent, with an incredulous attitude towards faith. Among the brothers, Coleman and Valene, there is the repressed violence.

It is a village with a group of sick people.Cats have more value than humans.

People in a game McDonagh apologize, but they never really seriously. bad things and family secrets come to the dialogue. The brothers give a litany of evil, hateful things they did together, which increases their mutual hatred of each other.

McDonagh Brothers in a game like the brothers in "Pillowman" seem to want to destroy his family from their actions.

There is violence and cruelty of wicked people as revenge. If weNumbskull also feel concerned for those affected? But she came to see how it would be fun for you. It is not that the purpose McDonagh? It makes us laugh and feel uncomfortable all at the same time?