About The Playwright
“The Cripple of Inishmaan” is an even blacker comedy than those in the trilogy and some of its content may offend certain sensibilities. However there is no denying its dark hilarity, albeit cruel in places, reflecting the primitive mindset of the islanders. Skibbereen Theatre Society’s production of the Cripple of Inishmaan is directed by Fachtna O’Driscoll, who has been working hard with a cast of nine to bring life to the humour and the dark side of McDonagh’s brilliant script.
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Audiences at Skibbereen Town Hall and the Everyman Palace Theatre in Cork have been privileged to enjoy the genius of Martin McDonagh, the London-born playwright of Irish descent with the staging in both venues of all three plays in his “Leenane Trilogy” in recent years, thereby whetting their appetites for further helpings.