Drama
The Cripple of Inishman, seen Sunday afternoon January 11, 2009 at the Atlantic Theater (NY) Mainstage, 2 slithy toads. Reasons To Be Pretty, seen Saturday afternoon April 11, 2009 at the Lyceum Theatre, 3 slithy toads. Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has written one of the best plays I've ever seen, The Pillowman, which I like enough to have seen once in London, twice in NY, and once in DC, and will happily go to again if given the opportunity. Let me know if it's playing on a stage near you, and we can do an outing. This year he received he an Acadamey Award nomination for his very pleasant comedy In Bruges. At the dawn of his career, he wrote The Cripple of Inishman, which was first presented in NYC ten years ago in a production that was not admired, and which now returns in a production first presented at Ireland's Druid Theatre, and which was received quite rapturously. Enh. Meh. McDonagh's plays specialize often in cruelties of a sort, and the Cripple is in...