David Hurst takes a look at Hangmen:
After winning four Golden Globes, three SAG Awards and seven Oscar nominations for his emotionally charged revenge film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh is unquestionably the toast of Hollywood. But theatre lovers know McDonagh foremost from a string of spectacular and shocking plays including The Leenane Trilogy, The Aran Island Trilogy, The Pillowman and, most recently, A Behanding in Spokane which was produced on Broadway in 2010. Thankfully, the "McDonagh drought" has ended thanks to the Atlantic Theater Company's presentation of The Royal Court Theatre's production of Hangmen, a brilliant, new black comedy that won both the Critics' Circle Theatre Award (2015) and the Laurence Olivier Award (2016) for Best Play. Undoubtedly it will rack up accolades on this side of the pond as well, and a Broadway transfer seems inevitable since it's the hottest ticket in town. . . . |
