The Pillowman

Playwright Martin McDonagh’s trenchant, Kafkaesque Tony winner of 2004 is set in a generic totalitarian state, where a writer of mostly unpublished horror fiction is confronted by Gestapo-like officers when a series of child murders appears to mirror his ominous stories. “The Pillowman” is a complex work about internal and external stimuli, about the limits of free speech, and about the effects of life on art and vice versa.