
This play is a masterpiece by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It won the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2005 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play, and is considered by the industry to be a modern black comedy in the style of Beckett. Playwright Martin McDonagh is regarded as the most outstanding Irish dramatist since Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett. Due to copyright reasons, the play had not been performed in mainland China until now. The Gulou West Theatre is the only theater to have obtained the rights for this play in the Beijing region.



