The Lonesome West

by Martin McDonagh

Overview

The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997.



'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily Telegraph



Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of topics. Only father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into vicious and bloody carnage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413719805
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/14/2008
Series:	Modern Classics
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	170,729
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Martin McDonagh's first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. In 2003, his play The Pillowman had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre and received the 2004 Olivier Award. In 2006, Martin McDonagh won an Oscar for his short film Six Shooter.

Editorial Reviews

Martin McDonagh is both a powerful writer of staying power and an individual talent within a powerful tradition ... His is a voice you will want to hear again.

Sunday Times

One of the great events of the contemporary Irish theatre.

Irish Times

Combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting.

Daily Telegraph

Mr. McDonagh's great strength is that he combines a love of traditional story-telling with the savage ironic humour of the modern generation...in the extraordinary THE LONESOME WEST, two brothers, one of whom has killed their father, are closeted together in undying hostility like a penned-up Cain and Abel.

The Guardian (UK)

THE LONESOME WEST...represents a leap forward in ambition and achievement for McDonagh...[it] offers...in-depth examination of character and is, in the end, a moving and complicated examination of redemption that might even offer a glimmer—a wee distant glimmer—of hope.

Variety

A powerful writer of staying power and an individual talent within a powerful tradition.” —The Sunday Times of London

From the Publisher

A powerful writer of staying power and an individual talent within a powerful tradition.

The Sunday Times of London