Biography
Martin McDonakh - British playwright, producer and film director. Today the author's plays are in demand, the performances on them are held in the most popular theaters, the film films became nominees and premium laureates. In Perm's efforts of the theater "At the Bridge", theatrical festival is held regularly, dedicated to the work of Martin McDonakh.Childhood and youth
Martin was born on March 26, 1970 in the family of Irish. The Boy's Motherland became London, where parents lived at that time. Father worked as a builder, and the mother was a cleaner. Martin has a brother John. Together with him, he stayed in the capital of Great Britain, when parents decided to return to their homeland, in Galway.
When young people were 16, they began to receive a state benefit on unemployment. John was unsuccessfully tried to become a writer. After watching his attempts, Martin also tried himself on this field, but failed.
Personal life
If in the UK there is still the opportunity to get information about the director, then in Russia it is not easy. The playwright does not publish photos and posts in "Instagram" and "Facebook", rarely gives interviews, and from public events prefers a visit to theatrical and cinematographic premiums.Embed from getty imagesMartin has not advertised a personal life for a long time, not allowing the public to argue on this topic. But today it is known that he meets with actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Theater
Creative biography of MacDonach Nepacious. At the beginning of the career, he wrote about 20 radio and scenarios, but the works did not publish. Everything changed in 1997, when the play "Beauty from Linen" was put on Broadway (the second name "Beauty Queen"). The project written in the week brought the author of the fame and the first Awards Evening Standard and Tony.
Subsequently, the fame and other play of the playwright acquired and other plays: "Cripple from Island Island", "Skull from Conneramary", "Lonely West". The directions paid attention to the author. In the early 2000s, the first productions of its works appeared in Russia. So, in "Satirikon" played "Queen of Beauty", and in the MHT they. Chekhov is a man-pillow.
The playwright transmits sublime ideals through domestic and lowland. His plays are replete with black humor and bloody disassembly. The heroes are the Irish, who constantly drink and foul in every step. Having developed its own style, McDona has been compared with Quentin Tarantino. The author is a propagandist morality and presents it with the help of an affordable and attractive for form reader.
Films
Having tried ourselves as a playwright and the screenwriter, Martin McDonakh became interested in cinema. The debut short film "Six pass", shot in 2004, received an Oscar in the relevant category.After 4 years as a director and producer Martin removed the picture to "heal at the bottom in Brugge". McDonah does not indulge fans by regular work, so the next movie severiment lovers of conceptual cinema had to wait for another 4 years. In 2012, the film filmography replenished the picture "Seven Psychopaths", and a year later, Golgotha was published.
In 2017, the public and criticism with delight met the premiere of the tape "Three Billboards on the border of Ebbing, Missouri." She received 2 Oscar figurines - for the best female role and the best male role of the second plan.
Black humor, criminal events, harsh relationships between the characters and the hyperbulsion of the peripetias accompany McDonach films. In his projects, he attracts talented Hollywood actors who provide a dramatic material to a non-trivial visual embodiment.
Martin McDona now
In 2019, Briton held the post of staff playwright of the Royal National Theater in the British capital. He continues to shoot a movie and write plays. Now there is no book that would unite the writings of the author.
The "executioner" of the Palachy, translated into Russian, had a wide resonance in theatrical circles in 2019 and was delivered in several European and Russian theaters. Oleg Basilashvili is played in the St. Petersburg BDT in the composition of the stage. In the Moscow Gogol Center, Cyril Serebrennikov became the author of the play.
Filmography
- 2004 - "Six Fold"
- 2008 - "Fall on the bottom in Brugge"
- 2012 - "Seven Psychopaths"
- 2013 - "Calvary"
- 2017 - "Three Billboards on the border of Ebbing, Missouri"
Bibliography
- 1996 - "Cripple from Island Island"
- 1996 - "Beauty Queen" ("Beauty from Linen")
- 1997 - "Skull of Conneramary"
- 1997 - "Lonely West"
- 2001 - "Lieutenant from Island Inishmore"
- 2003 - "Man-pillow"
- 2010 - "one-handed sprun"
- 2015 - "Balays"
- 2018 - "Very-very, very dark matter"