Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Martin McDonagh: facts and fictions -- 1 The Leenane Trilogy -- Leenane: murder capital of Europe -- Homecomings: The Beauty Queen of Leenane -- All the dead voices: A Skull in Connemara -- A sainted glory: The Lonesome West -- Staging The Leenane Trilogy -- 2 The Aran Islands plays -- 'A life that never found expression': Imagining the Aran Islands -- 'Ireland mustn't be such a bad place': The Cripple of Inishmaan -- 'A political what-do-ya-call-it': The Lieutenant of Inishmore -- The Aran Islands plays in production -- 3 World plays -- Martin McDonagh: a world dramatist? -- 'There were once upon a time two brothers': The Pillowman -- 'Not so much a vision as . . . some other kinda thing': A Behanding in Spokane -- The plays in production -- 4 The films -- Martin McDonagh as filmmaker -- 'Today was the last straw': Six Shooter -- 'A matter of honour': In Bruges -- 5 Performance and critical perspectives -- 'Monstrous children': Garry Hynes in conversation -- 'Like Tottenham': Martin McDonagh's postmodern morality tales -- A symbiotic relationship: the works of Martin McDonagh and ecocriticism -- McDonagh and postcolonial theory: practices, perpetuations, divisions and legacies -- McDonagh's gender troubles -- Conclusion -- A fashionably downbeat ending -- Resources -- Chronology -- A note on language -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Guide to allusions -- Further reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Notes on Contributors.