The Pillowman
Opening Night: April 10, 2005
Closing: September 18, 2005
Theater: Booth Theatre
Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning play The Pillowman, stars Billy Crudup, Jeff Goldblum, winner of the 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Oustanding Actor, Zeljko Ivanek and Michael Stuhlbarg. John Crowley directs. The play is about a writer in a totalitarian state who is interrogated about the horrific events in his short stories, and their similarities to a number of bizarre incidents occurring in his town.
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April 11, 2005
Comedies don’t come any blacker than "The Pillowman," the spellbinding stunner of a play by Martin McDonagh that opened last night at the Booth Theater, starring Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum. Even those familiar with this British dramatist’s blithe way with murder, mutilation and dismemberment, from works like "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" and "A Skull in Connemara," may be jolted by the events described and simulated so picturesquely in his latest offering. (Advisory note: severed fingers and heads, electric drills, barbed wire and premature burial all figure prominently.)
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