THE STORY: With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, THE PILLOWMAN centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art.
"Energizing
a blindingly bright black comedy
[what makes] the unsettling and exhilarating new play from Mr. McDonagh
so gripping as theater is how narrative art becomes the play's and the character's very life blood." - NY Times. "[McDonagh is] a dangerously prodigious master of theatrical form with a talent that goes far deeper than most people understand
THE PILLOWMAN [is] thoroughly startling and genuinely intimidating." - Chicago Tribune. "McDonagh's least forgiving, bravest play." - Variety. "A complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruelty and creativity." - Financial Times.
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Dramatists Play Service Inc. |
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Softcover |
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9780822221005 |
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