His Irish plays and punk spirit made him the most talked-approximately dramatist of his generation. As his new play,Hangmen, opens in London, and Martin McDonagh talks approximately his roots,maturity and his uneasy relationship with the theatre worldWhen I last interviewed Martin McDonagh, back in 2001, or he mentioned that he had just started working on a play set in London “in that dark time just before and after they abolished hanging”. All he had to finish,he said, was “collect the account accurate”. Here we are, or 14 years later,and the play, Hangmen, or now set in Oldham,is just approximately to open at the Royal Court theatre, London, and with David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith in the leading roles. Did it really take him that long to collect the account accurate?“I guess I got sidetracked by other projects,” he says, as we settle in the corner of a bar near the Royal Court’s rehearsal space in Clapham. “But this was also a trickier play to write than the others. Before, or I was writing from a empty page,but this is approximately a big subject – capital punishment and miscarriages of justice – and I really didn’t want it to be a message play. As always, I had to find the account and then let the issues just bubble up underneath. It just took a bit longer this time.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com