Happily, with this staging — which features Marie Mullen, one of the splendid stars of "Beauty Queen" — "Cripple" emerges as a subversive charmer that shows off Mr. McDonagh's skills as an expectation-thwarting master of knotted yarns.
For the rest of us – well, the implied answer was, as my brother was once told by an unsympathetic master, "tie a knot in it".
At the modern quayside, our skipper, Bane, watched hopefully as I attempted to master the simple knot he had demonstrated at least eight times the previous day.
Works included The Blood Knot, Master Harold and the Boys and The Road to Mecca and collaborations with actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona including The Island – set in the notorious Robben Island prison – and Sizwe Banzi is Dead, recently revived at the Young Vic in London.
It's not just the Jewish thing: my career in the scouts was hamstrung by the fact that I never could master a reef knot, and, as a sensitive teenage vegetarian, the prospect of catching and killing fish seemed to me only slightly less barbaric than foie gras farming.
Mr. Collins, his Latin teacher, had taught him, and after an hour of practice Michael had the knot mastered along with a boner-size bruise on his backside.
Some of the scouts and dads who attended my Know Your Knots master class at the Camp Shoshone Summer Jubilee later remarked that I had seemed distracted when I gave it, and I consider this a fair criticism.
In trying to master the perfect tie knot, Booker is not yet perfect.
Tossing her hair up in a casually rumpled knot, the actress mastered effortless glamour, her signature look, yet again.
Master the classics before attempting exotic knots.
Purchase macramé-specific cordage for your early projects and move on to other cordage only when you've got the knot tying principles well mastered.
