Martin McDonagh’s gleefully gruesome play The Lieutenant of Inishmore will be featured at Heritage College in Gatineau from April 6-9. Performances begin at 7:00 each evening in the Heritage College Auditorium, located at 325 boul. Cité des Jeunes in Gatineau. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for adults. For more information, please call 819-778-2270 x 1426.

Mounted by the College’s acclaimed and ambitious drama club, the production’s arsenal of special effects will include: five firearms, three dismembered bodies, two gallons of fake blood, and one expired feline. It’s a comedy, of course.

Set on the rocky island of Inishmore, off the coast of Ireland, the play centres around the character of Padraic, a feared terrorist assassin. Despite lacking any feeling for his human victims, Padraic has an obsessive attachment to Thomas, his beloved cat. When poor wee Thomas winds up dead, the cat’s caretakers madly attempt to conceal the fact before “Mad Padraic” returns from a stint of torture and bombing. The results are both hilarious and horrifying.

The Heritage College Drama Club’s rendition of McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan two years ago played to full houses every night.

Martin McDonagh
One of the more notable of the younger generation of British playwrights, Martin McDonagh is the critically-acclaimed creator of The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Pillowman, and the recent film In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.

Heritage College
As the only English post-secondary educational institution in Western Quebec, Heritage College is committed to the social, cultural and economic advancement of the community. All Heritage College Drama Club presentations are produced, directed and acted by students at the College.

Tickets are $5 (students) and $7 (all others).