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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
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Description
Wee Thomas was a friendly cat. He would always say hello to you were you to see him sitting on a wall. (Pause.) 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? "Mad Padraig" will want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves that cat more than life itself.
Product details

Published | Apr 25 2008 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 80 |
ISBN | 9780413765000 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Modern Classics |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'Gleeful, gruesome play about political terrorism in rural Ireland, which won the Olivier Award for best comedy...Appallingly entertaining...Enlightening..."Lieutenant" is brazenly and unapologetically a farce. But it is also a severely moral play, translating into dizzy absurdism the self-perpetuating spirals of political violence that now occur throughout the world.'
The New York Times
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'A cautionary fairy tale for our toxic times. In its horror and hilarity, it works as an act of both revenge and repair, turning the tables on grief and goonery, and forcing the audience to think about the unthinkable.'
The New Yorker