The Cripple of Inishmaan - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) - Softcover

Martin McDonagh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822216639 ISBN 13: 9780822216636

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1998

Synopsis

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin McDonagh's first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was the 1996 winner of the George Devine Award, won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Fringe Play and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. The play was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0822216639
• ISBN 13: 9780822216636
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72