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Meet The Cast Of "A Behanding In Spokane"

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Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Zoe Kazan, Anthony Mackie, John Crowley

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81st Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals

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2009 Oscar Nominees Luncheon

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Sid Ganis, Kate Winslet, Taraji P. Henson, Marisa Tomei, Taraji Henson

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Martin McDonaugh's New Play "A Behanding in Spokane" Deemed "Shameful and Vile" by Critic Hilton Als

By Onelove on | From blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com

Martin McDonagh's new play, "A Behanding in Spokane," panned by New Yorker magazine critic Hilton Als as "shameful and vile." Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Zoe Kazan, and Anthony Mackie in " A Behanding in Spokane ." Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features Martin McDonagh , a controversial English-born Irish playwright, who has created headlines in Britain and Ireland with his works tinged with black humor, has landed on American shores with his latest work, "A Behanding in Spokane...Read Full Story

Racebaiting And Ignorance In The Media’s Coverage Of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding In Spokane

By tynansanger on | From tynansanger.com

Posted on | March 16, 2010 | 4 Comments By now I wonder how Some people never know The enemy could be their friend guardian I’m not a hooligan I rock the party and Clear all the madness, I’m not a racist Preach to teach to all ‘Cause some they never had this -Chuck D. “Don’t Believe The Hype.” (1988) A while back, when discussing with friends the general lack of value of post-show talk-backs in theater, a friend mentioned having seen William H. Macy in such a discussion after...Read Full Story

Theatre Review: "A Behanding in Spokane"

By gaysocialites on | From gaysocialites.com

by Jonathan Warman Another play I don’t like by a playwright I do like. This is getting discouraging. At his best, Playwright Martin McDonagh offers a guardedly hopeful and redemptive vision for the violent, pathetic fuckers and hardnosed bitches that populate his plays. And aren’t we all at one time or another a pathetic fucker or a hardnosed bitch? Unfortunately, there’s not much hope or redemption in A Behanding in Spokane , so we’re just left with violence cropping up in pathetic...Read Full Story

Martin McDonagh Entertainingly Dissects Small Town Life In ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’

By toreyray on | From beverlyhillshousing.com

Largely, the world that Martin McDonagh writes about is one of cruelty and dark humor fitfully illuminated by explosions of sudden violence, from the steady accumulation of hatefulness in The Beauty Queen of Leenane to the poor bastard hung upside down from a cord and tortured in The Lieutenant of Inishmore . There is no lack of unkindness and mockery in his earlier play The Cripple of Inishmaan , but it’s notable in McDonagh’s body of work for the characters’ occasional decency and the quiet...Read Full Story