A revival of a play first performed in 2001, at the Noel Coward theatre, directed by Michael Grandage, beginning with a dead cat and ending up in a Peckinpah abattoir. It's brilliantly plotted, and utterly hilarious, and the underlying political messages darkly funny. An Irish lady in the audience particularly liked the father's response to the announcement that Padraic and Mairead would be married 'when there's peace in Ireland' with 'That'll be a long fecking engagement then'.
Aiden Turner fine as the psychotic cat-lover. With Denis Conway (Dad), Julian Moore-Cook the dim neighbour, Charlie Murphy his crack shot sister, Will Irvine, Brian Martin, Daryl McCormack and Matthew Blaney.
Now need to see ALL of McDonagh's plays. It was the best thing we'd ever seen in a theatre.
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