The Pillowman

by Martin McDonagh

Overview

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, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571220328
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	280,983
Product dimensions:	5.53(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Martin McDonagh is the author of six plays, including the Tony Award-nominated The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

Editorial Reviews

Energizing . . . a blindingly bright black comedy.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“A complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruelty and creativity.” —Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times

“Martin McDonagh, master of bad taste in black comedy's 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 Mail

From the Publisher

A play of extraordinary power and stunning theatrical bravura.

Daily Mail Michael Coveney

Martin McDonagh, master of bad taste in black comedy's cause and persistent enfant terrible, leaps towards maturity in this dazzling, disquieting nightmare of a play which makes up its own Grimm fairy-tales.

Evening Standard Nicholas de Jongh

A complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruelty and creativity.

Financial Times Alastair Macaulay

Energizing . . . a blindingly bright black comedy.

The New York Times Ben Brantley

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