野马九号：马丁·麦克唐纳的温柔转身

IN MARTIN McDONAGH’S WILD HORSE NINE, JOHN MALKOVICH AND SAM ROCKWELL PLAY A COUPLE OF CIA AGENTS CAUSING TROUBLE ON EASTER ISLAND. BEYOND ALL THE VIOLENCE, THOUGH, IS TRUE TENDERNESS… WORDS ALEX GODFREY in Martin McDonagh’s wake. As a firebrand playwright in his mid-twenties, violence was omnipresent: “Guns. Explosions. Blood,” is how he once described his work. Hands were forced into burning chip-pan oil; bones were removed from graves and smashed to pieces; fathers were shot dead by sons; a cat was killed; a dog’s ears were severed. Guns. Explosions. Blood. …