Irish comedy ready for area Stage West

   Stage West presents A Skull in Connemara, a wild anarchical comedy, set in rural Ireland, Feb. 6-March 9.

   A Skull in Connemara is the second play in Martin McDonagh's Leenane trilogy, which The New York Times calls "as choice (and literal) a piece of graveyard humor as the city has ever seen."

   McDonagh places the audience in a churchyard cemetery in the small village of Leenane, Ireland.

   Bodies that have been in the ground for seven years are about to be dug up and disposed of in order to make room for new burials.

   As usual, the job falls to Mick Dowd, played by Stage West founder Jerry Russell. But this time the job will pose extra difficulties to Mick since one of the bodies to be exhumed is that of his late wife, Oona.

   Oona supposedly perished as a passenger in the car her drunken husbandMick was driving. Or did she?

   Mick is joined by spectators and the whole ordeal intrigues the small village, many of whom wondered about Oona's passing from the beginning.

   The evening holds a surprise for the villagers as well as lots of questions for Mick.

   Performances are Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday, 3 p.m.

   Tickets are $20 and $24. Discounts are available for students, seniors and groups. For more information, call 817-784-9378.