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    The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

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    • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
    • Pub. Date: June 2006
    • ISBN-13: 9780822221005
    • Sales Rank: 37,327
     
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    Synopsis

    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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    McDonagh's least forgiving, bravest play.

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

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    June 23, 2005: This play probably has to be seen to be fully appreciated. The current NY production is about as immaculate as any one could imagine for this material. But even having seen it, there is still an added jolt in reading it afterward, if only to savor the superb writing. This play will be around for a long time. There are some aspects of its subject matter which are repellent, but overall it is a glorious play.