Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman To Be Performed at The Questors
Dark comedy from Oscar winning film director not for the fainthearted
A writer's darkest tales come to life. Picture: Robert Vass
October 10, 2024
A darkly black comedy from the writer of In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is coming up at The Questors Theatre.
With a warning that it is not for the faint hearted, the venue is staging Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh’s the Pillowman from Friday 11 October to Saturday 19 October.
In a shadowy totalitarian state, a writer is arrested and interrogated following a spate of gruesome child killings. His connection to the murders? They closely resemble the plots of his disturbing short stories. Are these copycat crimes or is something more sinister at play? And what drives him to craft such dark tales?
This ‘wickedly funny, twisted masterpiece’ which was the winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play explores the blurry line between truth and fiction, and forces us to ask the question – how much power do stories have?
Martin McDonagh is a British-Irish playwright and filmmaker, the acclaimed writer and director of Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, In Bruges and recently The Banshees of Inisherin which won Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Screenplay. His work is known for its black humour, grotesque and visceral imagery, and moral ambiguity.
Performances are at 7.30pm except on Sunday 13 October when it commences at 2:30pm. There is no performance on Monday 14 October
Standard tickets cost £14 - £20, under 18s and students £10 and concessions £12-18.
The Pillowman is recommended of ages 16 or over and contains descriptions and depictions of strong, bloody violence, swearing and strong language (including the use of discriminatory language), guns and gun-shots. In addition, it includesn contains depictions and descriptions of child abuse, child murder, sexual abuse, suicide, torture, murder, state oppression, police brutality, incarceration, physical and emotional domestic abuse, xenophobia and alcoholism.
Book tickets for The Pillowman here.
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