Der einsame Westen (The lonesome West)

Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik has already staged several plays by Martin McDonagh, dubbed the “Irish Tarantino”, in her home country. "The Leenane Trilogy" (1996–1997) dates back to a time before McDonagh became a successful filmmaker "In Bruges", "The Banshees of Inisherin". These three plays, set in Ireland, allow us to observe small-town people bad-mouthing one another in McDonagh’s unique linguistic style. THE LONESOME WEST is the culminating point in his remarkable early work, which explores a wide range of timeless themes: family, guilt and atonement, the meaning of life, and death. And, of course, the eternal question of which are the better crisps: Taytos or McCoy’s?