The Cripple Of Inishmaan

By Martin McDonagh.

It's 1934 on the island of Inishmaan, just off Galway Bay. The locals are excited. Robert Flaherty, the Hollywood producer famous for Nanook of the North, is coming to make a film of life on the Aran Islands. The young ones can't wait to watch the filming, even get a walk-on part!

This includes young Billy, a disabled boy who dreams of going to America and becoming a star. By turns hilariously funny and darkly bizarre, McDonagh's picture of rural Irish life has elements of Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift and Father Ted.