Generic Theater
Presents
The Cripple of Inishmaan
by Martin McDonagh
directed by Peggi McCarthy
The play concerns 17-year-old Billy Claven, abandoned at birth, and the community that has formed around him on the island of Inishmaan, off the west coast of Ireland and Galway Bay.
When Billy learns that a Hollywood film director is looking for actors on the neighboring island, he longs to escape the narrow life Inishmaan can offer a crippled boy. His going disrupts the lives of the islanders, revealing their true characters with McDonagh’s trademark wicked humor.
Generic Theater’s 2001 production of McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane won the Spotlight award for Best Play. Cripple, the fourth script by McDonagh the troupe has undertaken, also gives great scope to the company’s depth and skill. The actors include company veterans Helen Brock, Barbara Hilton, Cary Wendell, Betsy Kimball, Kate Kosteva, and Roland Goodbody. Noah Sheola plays Cripple Billy.