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THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore
On a lonely road on the island of Inishmore, someone killed an Irish Liberation Army enforcer’s cat. Padraic may be a terrorist, but he loves that cat more than life itself, and someone is going to pay for kitty’s execution… just as soon as Padraic returns from his stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland. This witty, ironic, and wild look at the hypocrisy of violence escalates from mayhem to a hilarious surprise ending that leaves audiences gasping for breath. If you loved Sweeney Todd, you won’t want to miss The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
EXTENDED! September 23 – November 16, 2008
A viciously funny tale that contains mature themes, adult language, and graphic depictions of violence. No cats were harmed in the creation of this play.
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THE CAST
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Tim Getman (Christy) SIGNATURE: …in the absence of spring… LOCAL: Arena:
Death of a Salesman, View from the Bridge, Chrsitmas Carol 1941, The Misanthrope,
Streetcar Named Desire; Shakespeare Theatre Co.: Camino Real; Centerstage: Ah
Wilderness!; Round House: The Retreat from Moscow; Olney: Somewhere in the
Pacific, Enemy of the People; Woolly Mammoth: The Unmentionables, The Distance
from Here (UMD), Savage in Limbo (UMD); Theater J: The Chosen, The Last Seder,
Passing the Love of Women; RepStage: In the Heart of America; Rorschach Theatre
(Artistic Associate): Birds, Arabian Night, Behold!, The Master and Margarita.
UPCOMING: RepStage: Lie of the Mind. AWARDS: Mary Goldwater. EDUCATION:
Macalester College; Trinity College, Dublin.
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Michael Glenn (Brendan) SIGNATURE: Fallen From Proust, ...in the absence of
spring...; LOCAL: Longacre Lea: Theories of the Sun, The Hothouse, Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Man With Bags, Power of
the Dog, Dumb Waiter, Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s Macbeth; Washington Stage Guild:
The Man of Destiny, O’Flaherty V.C., Fanny’s First Play, An Empty Plate at the Cafe
du Grand Boeuf, You Never Can Tell, The Underpants, A Skull in Connemara, Major
Barbara; African Continuum: Blood Knot, As You Like It; Folger Theater: Twelfth Night,
Elizabeth the Queen; Theatre Alliance: [sic]; Cherry Red: Zombie Attack.
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Joe Isenberg (Joey) SIGNATURE: Crave. LOCAL: Folger Theater/Two River Theater
Company: Macbeth; Theatre Alliance: Ambition Facing West, Solas Nua: Scenes fromthe Big Picture. TRAINING: North Carolina School of the Arts.
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John Lescault (Donny) SIGNATURE: Crave, Angels in America (Parts 1 & 2), Available
Light, Shooting in Madrid, Melville Slept Here. LOCAL: Round House: A Prayer for
Owen Meany; Shakespeare, Moses and Joe Papp; Wintertime; Our Town; Folger
Theater: The School for Scandal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet,
Elizabeth the Queen, Macbeth; Shakespeare Theatre: Tamburlaine, Edward II, The
Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Don Carlos; Theatre J: Either/Or, The Disputation, Hannah and
Martin, Death and the Maiden; Woolly Mammoth: Heaven, Psychic Life of Savages.
INTERNATIONAL: Prague Spring Music Festival: Defiant Requiem. FILM/TV: The Day Lincoln Was Shot, Unsolved Mysteries, The Arc. TRAINING: Catholic University, BFA.
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Matthew McGloin (Davey) LOCAL: Folger Theater: As You Like It; Kennedy Center:
Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major (world premiere and national tour);
Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple (Movement Coach, current
project); Olney Theatre: Cinderella; Synetic Theatre: Faust (Helen Hayes nomination
for Outstanding Ensemble); Imagination Stage: Huck Finn’s Story. REGIONAL: Virginia
Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, The Complete Works
of Shakespeare Abridged, The Complete History of America Abridged; Maryland
Stage Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. EDUCATION: University of MD
Baltimore County, BFA, Theater, Summa Cum Laude. UPCOMING: Kennedy Center:
Unleashed: The Secret Lives of White House Pets; Catholic University: Miranda is
Morning (Choreographer).
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Karl Miller (Padraic) OFF-BROADWAY: Alice in War, columbinus. LOCAL: Rorschach
Theatre: This Storm is What We Call Progress, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Lord
of the Flies; Washington Shakespeare Company: Henry V, The Maids; Theatre J: The
Tattooed Girl, Passing the Love of Women; Round House: columbinus, The Cherry
Orchard; Studio Theatre: Galileo, This Is Our Youth, Kit Marlowe; Arena Stage: Passion
Play, a cycle; Rep Stage: Hamlet, The Seagull, Arcadia. REGIONAL: Portland Center
Stage: Sometimes A Great Notion; Perseverance Theatre: columbinus.
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Casie Platt (Mairead) SIGNATURE: The Sex Habits of American Women. LOCAL:
Catalyst Theater: Crumble...(Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These
Hands; Woolly Mammoth: Current Nobody; Rorschach Theatre: Dream Sailors;
African Continuum Theatre Company: The Gingham Dog (dir. Jeremy Skidmore); The
Inkwell Festival: OK; Imagination Stage: Junie B. Jones and A Little Monkey Business,
Bunnicula; Bouncing Ball Theatrical Productions/Capital Fringe Festival: Cautionary
Tales for Adults and The Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles, Lunch; Theatre Alliance: You Are Here; Didactic Theatre: The Glory of Living (Lisa); Maryland Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing. EDUCATION:, Catholic University, MFA. UPCOMING:Signature: The Little Dog Laughed.
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Jason Stiles (James) LOCAL: ACTCo: The Gingham Dog, The Story; Catalyst
Theater: Crumble...(Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake); Folger Theater: All’s Well That
Ends Well; Longacre Lea: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Man with Bags,
The Power of the Dog, After Magriette, The Bald Soprano, Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s
Macbeth, Energumen, The Real Inspector Hound; Rorschach Theater: Accidental
Death of an Anarchist, Lord of the Flies, Ubu Roi; Source Theater/Black Cat: Titus
X; Washington Shakespeare Company: Antony and Cleopatra, The House of Yes;
Washington Stage Guild: Amphiptryon 38, The Countess, Fanny’s First Play, Family
Reunion, Incorruptible, The Philanderer, You Never Can Tell; Theater Alliance: Two
Rooms, In on It. REGIONAL: Shenandoah Shakespeare Express: Much Ado, Richard II, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice.
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COSTUME DESIGNS
Kathleen Geldard (The Happy Time) creates a casual, modern look for all of the characters in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
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MARTIN MCDONAGH: THE MARRIAGE OF COMEDY AND TERROR
 It is hard to find a playwright in the last decade as successful as Martin McDonagh. A wunderkind who by his mid-thirties had garnered an Olivier Award and been nominated for four Tony® Awards, Mr. McDonagh’s theater is brutal, political, course, and hysterical. Dark comedy is his signature and he prides himself on being able to shock an audience into laughing at almost anything. But McDonagh’s goal is not simply to be shocking.
Born in Camberwell, London to Irish parents, McDonagh spent many holidays in Western Ireland. He took note of the voices, lifestyle, and language he heard and began to write plays set in the area known as Leenane. To date, he has written two dark comedic trilogies: The Leenane Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West), The Aran Islands Trilogy (The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Banshees of Inisheer), and the dark fantasy The Pillowman recently mounted at Studio Theatre. Despite comparisons to John Millington Synge, Harold Pinter, and David Mamet, McDonagh’s theater and voice are certainly unique. His classically structured stories are tinted with a sharp dialogue and dark, surprising twists that are unmistakably from the mind of McDonagh. His plays focus on fascinating groups of people linked by isolation and despair, attempting to overcome both through the power of storytelling.
It seems as if nothing could be more absurd than the situations in which he places his characters in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. McDonagh invites us into a cautionary fairy tale for our violent times. Often compared to the Theatre of the Grand Guigonal where Punch and Judy style puppets were blown up to life size and covered in blood, McDonagh is interested in the combination of horror and hilarity, the macabre and farcical. Through violence and comedy, he forces the audience to reflect on the characters’ situations, and how it all might relate to them. Inishmore is McDonagh at his most humorous and horrific.
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore is sponsored in part by
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Signature Theatre’s 2008-2009 Season is partially supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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