Swiftianly savage and parodic He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than life itself. The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a brilliant satire on terrorism, a powerful corrective to the beautification of violence in contemporary culture, and a hilarious farce. Commentary and notes by Patrick Lonergan.
Much like Synge, Shaw, and O'Casey, McDonagh has faced criticism and even outrage due to the violence and misunderstood portrayals of the Irish in his plays. Though the violence in plays like The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore has been labeled gratuitous, we might better understand the purpose of that violence by examining them in light of Michel Foucault's concepts of knowledge and power.
Foucault's approaches best highlight one of McDonagh's most important themes: the establishment of a power dynamic between characters.
Foucault's analysis of the development and interaction of power structures in society, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, clarifies the violence of McDonagh's plays, and might add depth and greater meaning to his use of extreme violence.
Wee Thomas was a friendly cat. He would always say hello to you were you to see him sitting on a wall. He won't be saying hello no more, God bless him. Not with that lump of a brain gone. Who knocked Wee Thomas over on the lonely road on the island of Inishmore, and was it an accident? There seems to be a problematic discourse surrounding this apparently "Irish" play written by a playwright who is difficult to identify by way of nationality.
McDonagh has successfully divided the world of Irish theatre criticism into those who believe his play perpetuates Irish stereotypes, those who believe it subverts them and those who believe the play's dark, satirical form and content provides us with no significant literary contributions what so ever. By looking at critical responses to McDonagh's play as well as audience responses in a global context, we see that "Irishness" becomes something to be of less concern.
Moreover, by looking at McDonagh's treatment of the impulse to identity in "Irish" literature, we can come to see McDonagh's place in Irish literature; which may not be "in" Irish literature at all, but in postmodern literature. The intertextual nature of the play can be taxonomized as that which Fredric Jameson calls pastiche, that is, the emergence of cannibalized stylistic forms in the space of the text.
These traces no longer have meaning for us as we are unable to come to understand, in this era of late capitalism, Jameson tells us, not only an authentic history, but an authentic present as well. The allusions to historical events and to other works of literature emerge in such a way that we cannot take them seriously or identify with them at all.
Seeing McDonagh's work in this light, as being postmodern and not "Irish," whatever that means, brings us to see that identification by nationality is inadequate, but more importantly, that it is impossible.
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Dangerous, twisted and funny, Martin McDonagh's new play travels deep into The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a brilliant satire on terrorism, With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh fulfills the I'm writing a play, however I haven't really read that many plays.
The Pillowman is Martin McDonagh's most recent play. The play pivots around the mysterious death of his cat, Wee Thomas, and attempts by others to hide both the fact and, later, the identity of the perpetrator. In , The Lieutenant of Irishmore Setting: on the island of Inishmore, County Theres more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonaghs chosen weapons are laughter and gore Pushing theatre to its limits, McDonagh is making a Who knocked 'Mad Padraic's' cat over on a lonely road on the island of Inishmore and was it an accident?
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