In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths writer and director Martin McDonagh has written his next project, provisionally entitled Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and starring Frances McDormand.
Speaking to The Observer, McDonagh indicated his hopes that shooting should start early next year and said of the plot, "It’s about a 50-year-old woman whose daughter is murdered and she goes to war with the police in her home town, because she thinks they are more interested in torturing black people than getting justice."
Despite its topicality, the play was written "about four years ago".
Frances McDormand
At least 14 years in the making, McDonagh’s new play Hangmen, is opening at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on Friday, September 18, with David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith in the leading roles. The action takes place over two days in a pub near Oldham in 1965, shortly after parliament had announced the abolition of capital punishment.
The landlord is Harry Wade, the second most famous hangman in Britain after Albert Pierrepoint. Wade’s name amalgamates the names of two real-life English hangmen, Harry Bernard Allen and Stephen Wade. A mysterious young man named Mooney (played by Johnny Flynn) arrives, whose presence drives the play towards a violent conclusion, in characteristic McDonagh style.
