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From: The Stranger
Date: 20080207
Author:Anonymous

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In 1994, a 24-year-old Irishman living in London quit his job at the Department of Trade and Industry and dedicated his mornings to writing plays and his afternoons to watching soap operas. Seven months later, Martin McDonagh had written nine nasty, brutish comedies, mostly about hicks, retards, and lunatics in rural Ireland. Three years later, McDonagh was a theater star; with four plays running simultaneously in London.

His plays are described as a hybrid of J. M. Synge and Quentin Tarantino: In The Lonesome West, a son kills his ...

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