The Lonesome West
- By:
- Martin McDonagh
- Management:
- Theatre by the Lake
- Cast:
- Amy Humphreys, Andrew Pollard, Matthew Vaughan, James Wooldridge
- Director:
- Stefan Escreet
- Design:
- Sophia Lovell Smith
- Sound:
- Matt Hall
- Lighting:
- Jo Dawson
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Far from being the whimsical place beloved of television and Hollywood, Martin McDonagh's rural western Ireland is a place of surreal feudal strife where sons kill fathers because they criticise their hair, despairing villagers walk into the lake to die and the local priest has an hourly crisis of faith rendering him spiritually impotent. Of course it's a comedy - the blackest of black comedies - one of a series and, as directed by Stefan Escreet, very funny indeed, even though in the space of a few seconds a laugh is frozen by the physical violence which follows...
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