A Martin McDonagh play is guaranteed to provide three things, violence, comedy and locals mixed up in strange circumstances. A Skull In Connemara does disappoint or fail to live up to the McDonagh formula. Recipient of several awards, McDonagh is able to write characters that despite finding themselves in moral predicaments, do not lose their humanness. Part of his celebrated Leenane Trilogy, comprising of The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West, A Skull In Connemara is a dark comedy about a local grave digger who’s community thinks killed his wife 7 years earlier. Pat Shortt delivers a convincing performance as protagonist Mick Dowd who finds himself at the mercy of nosey neighbours.
