McDonagh’s marvellous medicine

Imagine how strange it must be to be Martin McDonagh’s parents. Off you go to watch one of your son’s works and what are you confronted with? Stories about matricide (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, in which a daughter murders her mother with a poker).

Imagine how strange it must be to be Martin McDonagh’s parents. Off you go to watch one of your son’s works and what are you confronted with? Stories about matricide (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, in which a daughter murders her mother with a poker).

Stories about psychotic characters (The Lieutenant of Inishmore, in which Padraic, the deranged leader of an IRA splinter group, is spurred to new heights of lunacy when he ...