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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 world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his latest drama, <i>The Pillowman</i>, 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.

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A key thing--to toss to...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 19:38:44 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 19:48:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:27:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:32:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 14:54:46 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 15:05:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 13:27:47 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 13:35:14 -0700 2007
Reminds me a bit of some of Orson Scott Card's short stories, in fact.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:00:30 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 20:13:30 -0700 2009
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My god, people. Never before has reading a play taken me to such beautiful, h...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 05 11:59:44 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 21 09:44:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 09:30:19 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 19:28:50 -0700 2008
The first scene of The Pillowman plays out about like you'd expect; a writer somewhere in an unnamed totalitarian state (given the names, it's set somewhere in Eastern Europe) is being interrogated by a couple of policemen. A...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:17:01 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:19:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 23:55:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 00:05:06 -0700 2009 Pillowman performed at Berkeley Rep a year or two ago – it was so shocking, and shockingly funny, that I wasn't quite sure what I'd seen. Last month I ordered the script and read it and it's just as good in print. No, not good: brilliant. McDonagh packs more wit, philosophy, political savage...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 13:24:09 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 13:30:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 06 09:28:52 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 11:12:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 12:42:51 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 13:06:32 -0700 2008 The Pillowman was not one of these, and had such an impact on me when I read it, that it stands alone as a piece of literature. (I hope to see it on stage soon)

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