Martin McDonagh is an acquired taste some people prefer not to acquire. I have to admit I’ve rarely ‘got’ him. He’s made at least one masterpiece (Three Billboards) but I generally find his mix of poignancy and outrageousness cracks under the strain of such divergences. After seeing The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Brian Behan (himself…
Intimations of mortality from comically remorseful agent
Director Martin McDonagh. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / LucaFazPhoto.

Aubrey Malone