New York : Kerry Condon, who currently plays Mairead in the Atlantic Theater Company's production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore , will leave the drama before it hits Broadway, in order to return to work on the HBO series Rome . She played her final performance on April 2nd. Alison Pill will replace her beginning April 4th.
Pill won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble for The Distance From Here with the Manhattan Class Company and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her work in On the Mountain .
Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore begins previews at the Lyceum Theater on April 19th and officially opens on May 3rd.
Starring alongside Pill in the production will be Jeff Binder as James, Andrew Connolly as Christy, Dashiell Eaves as Joey, Peter Gerety as Donny, Domhnall Gleeson as Davey, Brian d'Arcy James as Brendan, and David Wilmot Padraic.
The play premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon in April of 2001. It then transferred to London's Barbican Pit in December 2002, and then moved to the Garrick Theater in June of 2002 where it went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
The creative team includes set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Theresa Squire, lighting design by Michael Chybowski, sound design by Obadiah Eaves, and fight direction by J. David Brimmer. Wilson Milam directs.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is set in 1993 in County Galway on the rocky island of Inishmore, off the coast of Ireland. Padraic is a terrorist with no feeling for those he blows up, but has an obsessive attachment to Thomas, his beloved cat. But someone has killed poor wee Thomas. Was it an accident or an execution? Either way, the death must be concealed before 'Mad Padraic' returns from a stint of torture and bombing. Otherwise the recriminations will be horrifying.
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