{"title":"Martin McDonagh","description":"Martin McDonagh (born 1970) is playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter, born in England to Irish parents. He was awarded Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright in 1996 and won an Academy Award for a short film Six Shooter in 2006 and has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for In Bruges.","products":[{"product_id":"mcdonagh-plays-1-the-beauty-queen-of-leenane-a-skull-in-connemara-the-lonesome-west-paperback","title":"McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane Trilogy, one of the great events of the contemporary Irish theatre' (Irish Times). This volume contains: The Beauty Queen of Leenane - 'McDonagh's writing is pitiless but compassionate: he casts a cold, hard, but understanding eye on relationships made of mistrust, hesitation, resentment and malevolence' (Sunday Times); A Skull in Connemara - 'Here, McDonagh's gift is at its most naked and infectious . . . it leaves you giddy with gruesome exhilaration' (Financial Times); The Lonesome West: 'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' (Daily Telegraph)\"A star is born, bright and blazing, confident, individual and shockingly accomplished\" (Sunday Times)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51323860484319,"sku":"9780413713506","price":55.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4jY8GjgUV29780413713506.webp?v=1788422399"},{"product_id":"the-banshees-of-inisherin-paperback","title":"The Banshees of Inisherin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more?\u003c\/i\u003e 1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Pádraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51323868053727,"sku":"9780571381708","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/z0AMgdS5Nd9780571381708.webp?v=1788422432"},{"product_id":"beauty-queen-of-leenane-paperback","title":"Beauty Queen of Leenane - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beauty Queen of Leenane \u003c\/i\u003ewas first presented as a Druid Theatre\/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty Queen of Leenane\u003c\/i\u003e tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother, whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably toward the play's terrifying denouement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324158705887,"sku":"9780413707307","price":20.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0OtqVOAN969780413707307.webp?v=1788426183"},{"product_id":"the-cripple-of-inishmaan-paperback","title":"The Cripple of Inishmaan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. 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