The Lonely West is a cruel and dark comedy. Everything that distinguishes McDonagh’s dramaturgy, naked psychologism, the absurd dead end of recognizable life situations, the cruelty of people and circumstances, “black humor” - everything in this play is elevated to the highest degree. On stage there is a paradoxical, hypnotic combination of bullfighting and a chess game. The focus is on two brothers, the bottomless abysses of their traumatized souls, their grievances and pain, their thirst and inability to Love and Understand. Almost grotesque comedy suddenly falls into an emotional and moral abyss. In an age of general pseudo-stability and blurring of the boundaries of what is permitted, we offer shock dramaturgy, an injection of Truth, Conscience and... Irish humor. If there is such a concept - “psychological theater”, then the proposed version of the famous play by the cult playwright Martin McDonagh is acute psychological theater. The painful realism of the events and relationships of two brothers, cruelty, implicated in years of misunderstanding, hard life, empty grievances and murder, is paradoxically combined with acute comedy, forcing the audience to be in extreme states. Sergey Fedotov