The Pillowman

roots. However, the reviews for The Pillowman were at best mixed. Even casting the great David Tennant as Katurian could not staunch the critique that this play had crossed the line between acceptable dark humor, and this deplorable new piece of perverted theatre. Many found this new play unfounded in the torture. They said that the play questioned the role and power of art and begged the question if art could be destructive. They thought that The Pillowman was an example of the works McDonagh…

demeanor and mindset to fit that of Katurian’s. However, after reading this, I realized that I kept much of myself while playing as Katurian. I basically asked myself, “what would I do, feel, or say,” if I was put in the scenarios illustrated in The Pillowman.…

is relying on the speakers and setting to create an atmosphere of violence, rather then the brutal imagery that the audience was presented with in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Martin McDonagh presents a brutal description of violence in his play ‘The PillowMan”. “McDonagh uses violence to disrupt the spell of story-telling”.…