Nottingham Playhouse is to stage Martin McDonagh’s black comedy A Skull in Connemara which will reunite Fiona Buffini and Madeleine Girling on the creative team.
The Playhouse’s associate director Buffini and Girling, winner of “the UK's most prestigious award for stage design” the Linbury Prize, last collaborated on the Nottingham Playhouse production of J B Priestley’s Time and the Conways in autumn 2014.
Buffini said, “exploding stereotypes has always been something I’ve relished when directing. With Time and the Conways I was able to lift the lid on family life and what really goes on in a seemingly happy family. Now I’m excited to dig below the surface of a supposedly quiet village in rural Ireland with Martin McDonagh’s exceptional comedy, which explores with wit and compassion the most unneighbourly, violent and ugliest behaviour imaginable.”
The cast comprises Paddy Glynn as Maryjohnny Rafferty, Rhys Dunlop as Mairtin Hanlon, Ged McKenna as Mick Dowd and Paul Carroll as Thomas Hanlon.
A Skull in Connemara is one of McDonagh’s Leenane trilogy of plays which features The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West.
A Skull in Connemara runs at Nottingham Playhouse from Friday 22 May until Saturday 6 June. Press night will be on Tuesday 26 May.