Terrified (and laughing about it): Who but Martin McDonagh would dare to mock political violence these days? (Postmark London).(Brief Article)
American Theatre, May, 2002 by Wolf, Matt
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Terrorism, one can safely say, is no laughing matter. So leave it to Martin McDonagh to write the first play (in my experience, anyway) to make the nightmare of the "troubles" fiercely, bruisingly funny. What's more, McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore isn't the only play of late to put terrorism comically center stage-a phenomenon that had to happen, one imagines, on English stages before it could happen anywhere in the still-traumatized U.S.
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Lieutenant, directed by Wilson Milam, opened first in Stratford in April 2001 before transferring to the Pit, the Barbican ...
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