The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Derek Bertelsen
October 23 - November 23, 2014
About the show: A one-man terrorist cell wages war … All because somebody killed his cat. Oscar-nominated writer Martin McDonagh is at his best mixing his black Irish humor with a Tarantino-esque flair in this stage drama of revenge, cats, and blind justice. Mad Padraic, a terrorist too fanatic for the IRA, is enraged and grief-stricken when Wee Thomas, his beloved kitty, has “taken poorly” back home — i.e. been found flattened on a local roadside. So Padraic returns to the wind-swept Aran Islands for revenge.
Special Feature by Theatre in Chicago: Irish Cats Have Nine Lives: Feline Cameo in AstonRep Lieutenant of Inishmore
PRODUCTION TEAM
Derek Bertelsen* - Director
Alexandra Bennett* - Assistant Director
Dannie Moore* - Stage Manager/Dramaturg
Jeremiah Barr* - Scenic Designer/Special Effects
Samantha Barr* - Lighting Designer/Asst. Stage Manager
kClare McKellaston - Costume Designer
Ray Kasper* - Sound Designer
Kendra Kargenian - Dialect Coach
Robert Tobin* - Fight Choreographer
Aja Wiltshire* - Assistant Fight Choreographer
Sara Pavlak* - Assistant Costume Designer
Emily Schwartz - Production Photographer
*denotes AstonRep company member
CAST
Matthew Harris* - Davey
Tim Larson* - Brendan
Scott Olson - Donny
Chadwick Sutton - Joey
Robert Tobin* - Christy
Nora Lise Ulrey - Mairead
John Wehrman - Padraic
Scott Wolf - James
Widget - Wee Thomas (the cat)
Reviews
“Jeremiah Barr's ingenious property design keeps the Tarantino-esque spectacle within the boundaries of audience tolerance, as does Ray Kasper's precision-foleyed gunfire.”
— Windy City Times
“Derek Bertelsen has once again worked his directorial magic and made this quirky, dark drama pulsate with the necessary irreverence and eccentricity that eventually begins to seem almost normal.”
— Chicago Theatre Review
“Nora Lise Ulrey helps add some mystique and depth to Mairead, a BB gun–toting little sister who throws herself into the mess in a stepping stone effort toward revolution.”