Sentences with phrase «irish playwright»

It will be officially opened by the leading Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe at 6.00 pm on Tuesday 13 November.

In about 1795, at the tender age of 18, Ireland produced a whole new Shakespeare play, Vortigern and Rowena and sold the rights to the Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The bracingly weird Seven Psychopaths is the second film written and directed by the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.

Martin McDonagh, the fire - tongued British - Irish playwright turned whipcrack genre filmmaker, evidently agrees.

Hers came for playing a revenge - seeking mother in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's lacerating and controversial fable about a small town racked by grief and anger, which also won a supporting actor prize for Sam Rockwell as a racist police officer.

No other film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid pacing and ream upon ream of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.

Between 1997 and 1998, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh developed four feature - length plays.

Yet remarkably, this latest outing by Anglo - Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, best known to moviegoers for his 2008 picture In Bruges, lives up to its own hype.

Martin McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is an Irish playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter.

Well, at least from this Irish playwright's razored perspective of the American heartland, it is.

There's only one Martin McDonagh as is proven anew by Seven Psychopaths, the latest from the London - born Irish playwright and erstwhile wunderkind who in recent years has transferred his brand of casual and often comic cruelty to the screen.

If you've seen the dark - comedy - with - a-streak-of-philosophy In Bruges, the name «McDonagh» may not be wholly unfamiliar to you, as that film brought Irish playwright and director Martin McDonagh to international attention.

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's debut evades tired hitman - comedy territory via breezy performances (including a never - better Colin Farrell), inventive location work and, above all, the savage intelligence and elegiac wit of McDonagh's writing.

Barrett, who also wrote both films, is a self - proclaimed proud Kerry man, who was compared to the great Irish playwright John.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the Irish playwright who made In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri begins like a classic David - versus - Goliath story, pitting this bereaved, enraged mother against the whole damn world.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

An Anglo - Irish playwright with multiple Tony Award nominations, McDonagh came to filmmaking relatively late.

Irish playwright McDonagh (2008's terrific In Bruges and 2012's underrated Seven Psychopaths) hasn't lost steam with his third feature.

The icing on the cake is Martin McDonagh, the acclaimed Irish playwright who took a winning stab at writing and directing for the screen in 2008's In Bruges.

If O'Malley can steal a bit of private time, he admits to being smitten with the works of Irish playwright Brendan Behan and autobiographies of political figures.

From Presidents to writers, celebrities and royalty, the hotel has hosted the likes of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and Charles de Gaulle.

The venue is known for championing Northern Irish playwrights and actors.

Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.

Not exact matches

For me, it's always like some sort of divine stylist plucked George Bernard Shaw, that Irish terrier of a playwright, out of London's Fitzroy Square and dropped him down in Wicker Park, Logan Square or Pilsen.

Irish writer / director Martin McDonagh has made a name as a playwright and filmmaker through comedies of crime and consequence that dare audiences to consider heavy themes amidst dark tones and cruel twists.

As a character study it's near masterful, and as an examination of one brand of small town America you could never tell that it was written by an Irish - British playwright (and multiple Tony award nominee and Olivier winner).

Another Irish crime flick mixing violence and comedy, In Bruges is the cinema debut of renowned playwright Martin McDonagh.

«Not really,» says McDonagh, who's often called Ireland's greatest living playwright, though he was born and raised in London (by Irish parents).

Director John Michael McDonagh takes a bit of gangster - film inspiration from his playwright / filmmaker brother Michael for Calvary, but uses this somewhat gimmicky premise to sit down with the citizenry of a sleepy Irish coastal town and find out what makes them tick.

In Bruges is written and directed by Irish / British playwright Martin McDonagh, whose latest movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is receiving rave reviews.

The Irish novelist and playwright later wrote seminal works including The Importance Of Being Ernest and The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

Not all of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — it takes a playwright to dream up that title, and a shot of stubborn Irish blood to see it through producers» queries — is quite so blazingly righteous, just as Mildred doesn't always find herself so immovably in the right.

Irish Novelist, Playwright, and Critic Colm Tóibín to Serve as Chairman of PEN World Voices Festival, Beginning in 2015

Two major exhibitions honouring the Irish novelist, playwright, and poet Oscar Wilde, one in Paris, one in Reading, UK will open next month.

The Lure of Lakes / Michael Harding / 4 July Michael Harding, author, playwright and Irish Times columnist, talks with great honesty and wit about, life, love, the sublime and pursuits of spiritual transformation.