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The Pillowman: A Play (Faber Drama)
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.
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I kind of feel lame about this because everyone else seemed to love this play way more than I did. I mean, on the surface, it seems to be a play that I would like, since it has lots of gruesome murders and a dictatorship and interrogation and torture in it. But I don't know, I guess it just didn't resonate with me the way it did with other people. I understood the ideas and themes behind it, but it wasn't enough to really grip me. Though I did enjoy the ending and Ariel's backstory and everything that happened between him and Katurian. Ariel probably ended up being my favorite character, actually, and he has loads of great lines and scenes. I really felt for him and his motivations.
Anyway, all that being said, I do want to see this as a play. I think I might enjoy it more after seeing it, maybe, especially since I'm generally a very visual person and imagine everything I read playing out in my head anyway.
Anyway, all that being said, I do want to see this as a play. I think I might enjoy it more after seeing it, maybe, especially since I'm generally a very visual person and imagine everything I read playing out in my head anyway.
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