New Rep Announces The Lieutenant of Inishmore - A terrorist… and his cat?
October 10, 2008
New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to present The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Written by Martin McDonagh, the playwright who gave us the critically acclaimed The Pillowman, comes this blazingly funny and bitterly blood-curdling play about a terrorist and his cat. The Lieutenant of Inishmore opens for the press on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 7:30pm and plays through November 16, 2008 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in the Charles Mosesian Theater.
"I am very excited that New Rep is producing another of Martin McDonagh's works." says Rick Lombardo, Producing Artistic Director. "He is one of the theater world's most highly regarded contemporary authors, and I'm very pleased that New Rep has introduced more of his work than any other theater company to the Boston area."
"I am thrilled to be returning to New Rep." states David R. Gammons, the director of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, who directed last season's Downstage @ New Rep production of My Name is Rachel Corrie. "I share McDonagh's dark sense of humor, and I am looking forward to bringing this bloody comedy to life on stage."
Blazingly funny and bitterly blood-curdling. A brazen and unapologetic farce. This award-winning comedy tells of a ruthless Irish Republican Army enforcer, "Mad" Padraic, and the one thing he loves more than anything else in the world . . . his little black cat, Wee Thomas. But someone has killed Wee Thomas. Was it an accident or an execution? Whoever is responsible had better fess up, or Padraic's reign of terror will come crashing down on the small Irish island of Inishmore. What ensues is a hilariously bloody, choking farce, quintessential to McDonagh.
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