That sound you hear is teacups crashing. Mr. McDonagh plans to move to New York and hopes to develop a partnership with the Atlantic Theater Company, where “Behanding” was originally going to be produced.

“I could knock a play out for them every year and have a slot in the season” he said, adding that some of them would be good, others wouldn’t. Flashing his devilish smile, he said, “I should probably tell them this first.”

The Atlantic’s artistic director, Neil Pepe, sounded open to the idea. “If he can knock them out,” he wrote in an e-mail message, “I’ll put them on.”