Martin McDonagh on the Hungarian Stage

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Martin McDonagh on the Hungarian Stage

- The Cripple of Inishmaan -

Martin McDonagh a magyar színpadon

- A kripli -

Martin McDonaghs achiever story in Hungary is studied in this thesis, with a special focus on The Cripple of Inishmaan and its long-lived per crapance in Budapests Radnóti Theatre. through the analysis of the plot and the characters, we examine whether the bend is indeed steeped in Irish culture. Certain characteristics of McDonaghs stage machinery are identified to mystify at the conclusion that it is in fact rather this than his Irishness that provides his plays with a unique tone and which leads performances to succeeder.

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Introduction

Martin McDonagh, the contemporary English-Irish playwright has enjoyed enormous success on the Hungarian stage. Audiences have seen seventeen premieres of five of his half-dozen plays published to date.



The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the first play to be staged in Hungary arrived in the country in 1997, besides one year after its opening in townsfolk Hall Theatre, Galway. Theatres with casts including the most renowned directors and translators have produced his plays all or so the country, and even today, thirteen years after the first premiere, his popularity does non seem to decline.

However, the reason for this enormous success is not obvious. According to Péter P Müller, creator of the only comprehensive study on the Hungarian response of Martin McDonagh published to date, it is due to the tendency of `domesticating the plays. Nevertheless, this statement contradicts the fact that the single most long-lived performance in Hungary, The Cripple of Inishmaan in Budapests Radnóti Színház (Radnóti Theatre) lacks any direct form of domestication.

Therefore, through the analysis of both the play and the performance, we are going...

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