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Martin McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a contemporary Irish playwright. He was born in Camberwell, London, to Irish parents. His mother (originally from Killeenduff, Easky, County Sligo) and his father (originally from Lettermullen, Connemara, County Galway) later moved back to Galway, leaving Martin and his brother (screenwriter John Michael McDonagh) in London, where Martin began collecting unemployment benefits at age 16. He is engaged to Lynne Franks. March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other uses, see Camberwell (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Killeenduff is a townland within the boundaries of the Roman Catholic parish of Easky, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference G374381 Statistics Province: Connacht County: Elevation: 1 m Population (2002) - Town: - Rural: 211 1,233 Website: http://www. ...
Statistics Province: Connacht County Town: Sligo Code: SO Area: 1,837 km² Population (2006) 60,894[1] Website: www. ...
Lettermullen (Irish Leitir Meallain) is a small island on the west coast of Ireland in Connemara, County Galway situated approximately 36 miles from Galway city. ...
Connemara (Irish Conamara), which derives from Conmhaicne Mara (meaning: descendants of Con Mhac, of the sea), is a district in the west of Ireland (County Galway). ...
Statistics Province: Connacht County Town: Galway Code: G (GY proposed) Area: 6,148 km² Population (2006) 231,035 (including Galway City); 159,052 (without Galway City) Website: www. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference M300256 Statistics Province: Connacht County: Dáil Éireann: Galway West European Parliament: North-West Dialling Code: 091 Postal District(s): G Area: 50. ...
Lynne Franks (born 16 April 1948) is one of the best-known public relations consultants in the world, a United Kingdom-based commentator on womens issues, sustainability, and consumer lifestyles. ...
During visits to Galway in the summers, McDonagh became acquainted with the dialect of English spoken in western Ireland, which he would later put to work in his plays. His ironic combination of coarse country language, primal symbology and black humour represents a peculiar fusion of the work of John Millington Synge with the modern drama of Harold Pinter, David Mamet and British television comedy. Edmund John Millington Synge (IPA: ) (April 16, 1871 – March 24, 1909) was an Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. ...
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist. ...
David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ...
He has been awarded Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright in 1996. The Critics Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Awards in 1989 and 1990) are presented annually for the years theatrical achievements. ...
His dramatic corpus to date incorporates two dark comedic trilogies, The Galway Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in the Connemara, The Lonesome West) and The Aran Islands Trilogy (The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Banshees of Inisheer), and the dark fantasy, The Pillowman, as well as two prize-winning radio plays, including 'The Tale of the Wolf and the Woodcutter'[1]. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a drama by Martin McDonagh. ...
Book cover The Lonesome West is a play by contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, part of his Connemara trilogy, which includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Skull in Connemara. ...
Book cover (Methuen) The Cripple of Inishmaan is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh who links the story to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran. ...
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, who wrote the Tony award winning play, The Pillowman, which played at the Booth Theatre from April to September of 2005. ...
The Pillowman is a play by Martin McDonagh. ...
In March 2006 he won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Six Shooter, a film he wrote and directed.
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Six Shooter is a British 2005 Academy Award-winning live action short film. ...
The Leenane Trilogy The story of the disfunctional relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother, during the course of which the former faces her last chance at love, and the latter faces a rather grim end. Nominated for Tony Award for Best Play in 1998. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a drama by Martin McDonagh. ...
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
- A Skull in Connemara (1997)
A Connemara man has the job of smashing the skeletons in old graves, and his newest customer is the wife he killed years before, which may or may not have been accidental. An Erinization of Sam Shepard's True West, in which two brothers bicker in the aftermath of the supposedly accidental fatal shooting of their father. Nominated for Tony Award for Best Play in 1999. Book cover The Lonesome West is a play by contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, part of his Connemara trilogy, which includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Skull in Connemara. ...
Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is a unique American artist whose talents have been expressed in many different areas. ...
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
The Aran Islands Trilogy A crippled teenager schemes to get a part in Man of Aran. Dark comedy ensues. Book cover (Methuen) The Cripple of Inishmaan is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh who links the story to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran. ...
Man Of Aran is a documentary film on life on the Aran Islands by Robert J. Flaherty (1934). ...
The term problem plays is applied to the three plays William Shakespeare wrote between the last of his pure comedies (Twelfth Night) and the first of his pure tragedies (Othello) They are Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida. ...
The insane leader of an IRA splinter group has just found out his best friend has been killed. The best friend is a cat... hilarity and/or violence ensues. Nominated for Tony Award for Best Play in 2006. The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, who wrote the Tony award winning play, The Pillowman, which played at the Booth Theatre from April to September of 2005. ...
This article is about the historical army of the Irish Republic (1919–1922) which fought in the Irish War of Independence 1919–21, and the Irish Civil War 1922–23. ...
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
The grand finale of the Aran Islands trilogy. (unproduced and unpublished)
Other Plays A horror writer is interrogated after several local children are murdered. Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best new play in 2004 and nominated for Tony Award for Best Play in 2005. The Pillowman is a play by Martin McDonagh. ...
The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ...
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
Other works In 2006, Martin McDonagh won an Oscar for his short film Six Shooter. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
Six Shooter, which is the playwright's first move into film, boasts an impressive list of Irish talent including Brendan Gleeson, Ruaidhri Conroy, David Wilmot and Aisling O'Sullivan. The black comedy follows Gleeson as he makes a sad train journey home, just hours after his wife's death, but on the trip he encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young man. Gleeson as Professor Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. ...
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Aisling OSullivan is an award-winning Irish actress who starred in the movie The Butcher Boy as Francies mentally unstable mother who eventually commits suicide. ...
The short film was shot on location in Wicklow, Waterford and Rosslare. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference S604123 Statistics Province: Munster County: Area: 41. ...
The name Rosslare may mean: the village of Rosslare Strand in County Wexford, Ireland the village of Rosslare Harbour in County Wexford, Ireland the Rosslare Europort at Rosslare Harbour This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
In Bruges - After winning his Oscar for Six Shooter, McDonagh entered into an agreement with Focus Features to direct a feature-length film from his screenplay In Bruges, about two hit men who hide out in Bruges after accidentally killing a child. Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film, expected to be released in the USA in 2008. Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish actor who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth and S.W.A.T.. // Farrell was born prematurely. ...
Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated British actor. ...
Gleeson as Professor Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. ...
Awards
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a drama by Martin McDonagh. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
Book cover The Lonesome West is a play by contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, part of his Connemara trilogy, which includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Skull in Connemara. ...
This article is about the year. ...
The Pillowman is a play by Martin McDonagh. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, who wrote the Tony award winning play, The Pillowman, which played at the Booth Theatre from April to September of 2005. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
// This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ...
Revolver is also a rock-and-roll album by The Beatles. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Critics Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Awards in 1989 and 1990) are presented annually for the years theatrical achievements. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a drama by Martin McDonagh. ...
The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ...
The Pillowman is a play by Martin McDonagh. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
References - ^ http://www.irdp.co.uk/wolf.htm
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