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“Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.”
― Ash Wednesday
― Ash Wednesday
“The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.”
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“The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.”
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
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Tyler wrote: "I'm so glad you enjoyed The Leenane Trilogy. The interplay between the three is a lot of what I write about in my essay. I definitely agree that you definitely have to read it with a bit of irony a..."Aha! I can definitely see the soap-opera influence. Nice.
I saw a production of The Pillowman several years ago. I really enjoyed it. By now I've forgotten much of it though, and have been meaning to read it for a while now. Will definitely have to pick up a copy when I get a chance.
Next I'm going to read The Lieutenant of Inishmore (which I borrowed from Matt along with the Leenane trilogy)... and maybe after that The Cripple of Inishmaan, which I believe he has as well. Then I think I might be ready to tackle your paper :)
I'm so glad you enjoyed The Leenane Trilogy. The interplay between the three is a lot of what I write about in my essay. I definitely agree that you have to read it with a bit of irony and pity for the inhabitants of Leenane though, and that McDonagh is making a lot of (un)conscious statements about human nature through its citizens.I also LOVE what you said about plot twists becoming "caricatures of themselves after a point." McDonagh watches English soap-operas almost religiously (it's there that he learned play-writing, not from the theatre) and a lot of criticism (positive and negative) has been done on the viability of the "twist" heavy plots that reappear throughout his work. (Personally, I love it).
If you're up for more, I'd definitely recommend The Pillowman next. It's easily his best stand-alone piece so far so far and and it doesn't require accents, making for a treasure trove of monologues.
Both good choices. Lieutenant shows McDonagh at his most comedic and brutal, and Cripple, though tame compared to the rest, has some FANTASTIC characters and development.