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.

"Energizinga blindingly bright black comedy[what makes] the unsettling and exhilarating new play from Mr. McDonaghso 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 understandTHE 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.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Play

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822221005

Stock code

9780822221005

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