Martin McDonagh
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
He is at writerly ease with sociopaths. A typical McDonagh character may be set on extreme violence , or vengeance for violence, or be an intimate bystander to, or victim of, extreme violence; but they mostly all share an acceptance, if sometimes a puzzled acceptance, that this is how things are. (This is the mainspring of McDonagh’s black comedy – from plays like the Lieutenant of Innishmore, to his great films In Bruges and ThreeBillboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.)
