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The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Name: The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Author: Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh,

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Martin McDonagh,

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A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during the Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of revenge. Wee Thomas was a friendly cat. He would always say hello to you were you to see him sitting on a wall. (Pause.) He won't be saying hello no more, God bless him. Not with that lump of a brain gone. Who knocked Wee Thomas over on the lonely road on the island of Inishmore, and was it an accident? "Mad Padraig" will want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves that cat more than life itself.

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Publisher

Methuen Drama

Year

2014

ISBN

9781474222136

Edition

Topic

Letteratura

Subtopic

Teatro

have

a

sense

of

the

way

McDonagh

reduces

the

heroic

rhetoric

of

political

killers

to

the

scale

at

which

its

absurdity

becomes

plain.

The

Lieutenant

is

unsettling

because

it

enacts

the

mentality

it

describes.

McDonagh

satirises

the

zealot’s

loss

of

perspective

in

which

the

serious

becomes

trifling

and

the

trifling

becomes

deadly

serious.

But

he

does

this

not

by

pointing

a

political

moral,

but

by

creating

a

parallel

universe

in

which

cats

are

infinitely

important

and

human

lives

infinitely

disposable.

Playing

with

perspective

is

one

of

the

ways

in

which

humour

works,

and

The

Lieutenant

is

always

grotesquely

funny.

But

we

always

know

that

this

game

has

deadly

consequences

in

the

world

beyond

the

theatre.

No

play

can

stop

those

consequences,

but

McDonagh

manages

at

least

to

inflict

on

those

who

take

themselves

so

seriously

the

one

punishment

they

really

can’t

abide.

That

is

not

martyrdom

but

mockery.

Fintan

O’Toole

2009

x

The

Lieutenant

of

Inishmore

The

Lieutenant

of

Inishmore

To

Pussy

(1981–1995)