Cocksure Theatre Co. was recently Critic's Choice, 4 star rating from 'Time Out', for McDonagh's 'The Lonesome West'.

Antonia Doggett's production handsomely captures the spirit of McDonagh's grimly comic Irish world. There's slapstick humour and in-yer-face-style violence aplenty from the pop-eyed, bulging-veined brothers, enthusiastically played by Johnny Vivash and Francis Adams, but John Giles' priest and Georgia Winters' Girleen also manage to tap into a deeper seam of tragedy that runs through the work, investing McDonagh's caricatural exorbitancies with some real feeling. It all makes for an uncomfortably funny couple of hours.

Designer Regina Fraas, currently Deputy Wardrobe Mistress on 'Into the Hoods' at The Novello Theatre, studied design at RADA and has worked as assistant set and lighting designer with Catherine Elliot in Washington, D.C. She won the Curtain Call Award in 2005 for her design of Hot Mikado (P&P Productions), and was assistant designer on The Car Cemetery (The Gate Theatre) and The Slow Sword (The Old Red Lion). Regina also designed Cocksure Theatre Co.'s production of The Lonesome West (Tabard Theatre)

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