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The Pillowman
Author: Martin McDonagh
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While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has filled houses in New York and London, been showered with the theatre worlds most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his latest drama, The Pillowman, is the viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders occurring in his town.ReviewPRAISE FOR MARTIN MCDONAGH AND THE PILLOWMANMcDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century. --The New RepublicEnergizing . . . a blindingly bright black comedy. --Ben Brantley, The New York TimesA complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruelty and creativity. --Alastair Macaulay, Financial TimesMartin McDonagh, master of bad taste in black comedys cause and persistent enfant terrible, leaps towards maturity in this dazzling, disquieting nightmare of a play which makes up its own Grimm fairy-tales. --Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard A play of extraordinary power and stunning theatrical bravura. --Michael Coveney, Daily MailAbout the AuthorMartin McDonagh is the author of six plays, including the Tony Award-nominated The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
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While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has filled houses in New York and London, been showered with the theatre worlds most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his latest drama, The Pillowman, is the viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders occurring in his town.ReviewPRAISE FOR MARTIN MCDONAGH AND THE PILLOWMANMcDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century. --The New RepublicEnergizing . . . a blindingly bright black comedy. --Ben Brantley, The New York TimesA complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruelty and creativity. --Alastair Macaulay, Financial TimesMartin McDonagh, master of bad taste in black comedys cause and persistent enfant terrible, leaps towards maturity in this dazzling, disquieting nightmare of a play which makes up its own Grimm fairy-tales. --Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard A play of extraordinary power and stunning theatrical bravura. --Michael Coveney, Daily MailAbout the AuthorMartin McDonagh is the author of six plays, including the Tony Award-nominated The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
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