Mick Dauds, played by Laura Subatniekas, plays an interesting role in this show. “He lives in Connemara, a small village in Ireland. Seven and a half years ago, his wife died in a car accident. At the time, Mick was drunk behind the wheel, his wife was not wearing a seat belt. Mick served the driver. his time in prison, but now he does all the odd jobs. As if nothing was happening? There will be more! In the village there is a small cemetery that is full again, there is no longer any place to store the dead, and the solution is unusual: the oldest corpses are unearthed. Mick Dowd was hired for this job as a capraccier. And so it happened that Mick also has to dig up his wife’s remains in the field. ” Lauris Subatnieks outlines the theme of his character. In parallel, there is also a second line in the plot. Visitors, as is customary in a close-knit community, gossip and gossip, and from the very beginning – immediately after the accident – it was rumored that Mika’s wife had not died in the accident, but that something bad had happened before. When it comes time to dig into her grave, rumors resurface. Tension builds: what will happen, will the truth be revealed?
The theater advertises the show as a “very black comedy”. Director Amy Marchant has already created a comedy with the Daile Theater team – A show that melts in butter. Lauris Subatnieks immediately describes that the performances are different because Irish skulls (in the original Connemara Skull) author Martin McDonagh is famous for his dark comedies in which you don’t just laugh at situations, events and misunderstandings. “There is meaning through laughter,” adds Lauris Subatnieks and remembers that Martin McDonagh’s works have already been staged in Daile. Inishman’s Lame (1998), Cushion (2005), Beauty queen in linen (2007) and An arm of Spokane (2013). Martin McDonagh is also the author and director of several excellent film scripts. His film Insherin’s Banshees has just won the award for best screenplay at the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Irish skull it’s a drama and a detective comedy at the same time, where graveyard humor appears in a new light and the fun side of everyday life is portrayed with brilliant irony. To the question: how does the viewer appear from the side of the stage? – Lauris Subatnieks replies: “I already think situations are very understandable to the Latvian viewer, the compact village environment is recognizable. People live the same everywhere: they create problems, gossip, create events to make life more interesting” .
