The Pillowman

The Pillowman ( original title " The Pillowman ") is a play by contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.

The central figure of the piece is the writer Katurian K. Katurian which is interrogated and tortured at a police station in a fictional totalitarian regime of two officials along with his retarded, mentally handicapped brother. The two hold him before his stories are where abused children and regularly killed partly cruelly. It later turns out that some murders were committed exactly according to the pattern of his stories. Gradually, the audience learns of the childhood experiences Katurians and his brother, as well as the two police officers.

On 13 November 2003, the piece was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London with David Tennant and Jim Broadbent in the leading roles, followed by, among others Performances on Broadway in the Booth Theatre, at Vienna's Burgtheater and the Munich Residenz Theater.

2004 it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the Broadway production won the Drama Critics Circle Award and several other awards.

• Literary work
• Literature ( 21st century)
• Literature ( English )
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