Boning up on rural Irish drama
DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn, of Galway-based Decadent Theatre Company, is revisiting Martin McDonagh’s darkly humorous play, A Skull In Connemara. It opens at Cork’s Everyman Theatre on Mar 19 as part of a national tour.
Flynn was the stage manager on the original Druid and Royal Court co-production of the play, in 1997. It was staged with the other Leenane Trilogy plays, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West, directed by Garry Hynes. Flynn, nominated as best director in the 2012 Irish Times Awards, says that while A Skull In Connemara is regarded as the weakest of McDonagh’s plays, directing it stand-alone is liberating.
