{"id":7752,"date":"2019-04-05T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2019-05-02T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:38:48","slug":"elizabethtown-college-theatre-finishes-the-year-with-dark-comedy-the-cripple-of-inishmaan-on-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/elizabethtown-college-theatre-finishes-the-year-with-dark-comedy-the-cripple-of-inishmaan-on-april-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Theatre Finishes the Year with Dark Comedy \u201cThe Cripple of Inishmaan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe story is relatable. It’s about escaping the tedium of your life and trying to follow your dreams\u201d, said Terri Mastrobuono, director of the upcoming Elizabethtown College production of \u201cThe Cripple of Inishmaan.”<\/p>\n

Following the citizens of Inishmaan, a small Aran Island off the west coast of Ireland, \u201cThe Cripple of Inishmaan\u201d is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh. When a Hollywood movie crew comes to town to film \u201cThe Man of Aran,\u201d <\/em>locals including \u201cCripple\u201d Billy Claven see the opportunity as a chance to escape from the boring life of Inishmaan. Cripple Billy, as he is referred as by almost everyone in Inishmaan, dreams of a life free from ridicule and harassment.<\/p>\n

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Senior Theatre major Anna Sorrentino said, \u201cIt\u2019s a heartfelt story with a ton of comedy. McDonagh does a great job writing about the dark part of life while still being poignant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sorrentino will be playing her last role at E-town as Kate Osbourne, one of Billy\u2019s aunts that raised him.<\/p>\n

Billy\u2019s two aunts, Kate and Eileen, have a small shop where most of the story takes place. Towns folk come and go spreading rumors, bulling each other and causing a mess. It\u2019s not only \u201cCripple\u201d Billy that receives harsh treatment from the people around him. It seems that no one is safe from harassment, his differences are just more viable.<\/p>\n

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McDough also wrote and produced \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri\u201d an Academy Award winning movie for Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Screenplay, Best Actress – Drama as well as three SAG awards. In his play \u201cThe Cripple of Inishmaan,\u201d McDonag\u2019s dark humor is full of\u00a0 \u201cquintessential and witty Irish humor,\u201d said Mastrobuono. This Irish comedy takes its viewers to a small boring island full of horrible yet funny characters that show \u201cIreland mustn’t be such a bad place.\u201d<\/p>\n

This production will be the final full performance put on by E-town Performing Arts Department\u00a0 for the 2018-2019 academic year. Located in the Tempest Theatre in Bossman Commons, the show will open Thursday, April 11th at 8 p.m. and run two weekends. Dates are April 11, 12, and 13, with a break for Easter weekend. The performance will resume on April 25 and 26. The final performance will be a 2 p.m. matinee on April 28. Ticket prices are $7 at the box office. Reservations can be made by calling (717) 371-1170 or by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe story is relatable. It’s about escaping the tedium of your life and trying to follow your dreams\u201d, said Terri Mastrobuono, director of the upcoming Elizabethtown College production of \u201cThe Cripple of Inishmaan.” Following the citizens of Inishmaan, a small Aran Island off the west coast of Ireland, \u201cThe Cripple of Inishmaan\u201d is a dark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":7755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-arts-culture","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7757,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions\/7757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}