Presented by Decadent Theatre Company A Skull in Connemara, fresh from its stint in the Gaiety Theatre, will run at the Mullingar Arts Centre from February 19-22.
For one week each autumn Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, making way for new arrivals. As the time approaches for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours regarding his involvement in her sudden death seven years earlier begin to resurface... Nosey neighbours, troublesome teenagers, and an ambitious Garda contribute to this dark humoured play.
Winner of the Evening Standard and George Devine Awards for Most Promising Playwright 1996, Martin McDonagh’s brilliant black comedy, A Skull in Connemara is one of McDonagh’s funniest plays. Nominated for an Olivier award in 1997 the play is guaranteed to make you laugh, squirm, and avoid graveyards!
Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara is the sister in the Leenane Trilogy, the play’s older and younger siblings are The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West.
Fans of Martin McDonagh’s movies (Seven Psychopaths and In Bruges ) are in for a treat with this superb theatrical masterpiece.
A Skull In Connemara is running in the Mullingar Arts Centre from February 19-22. Tickets are €18/€15 with tickets a special preview price of only €14 on February 19.
For more information call Mullingar Arts Centre on (044 ) 9347777.
