The Pillowman

Name: The Pillowman
Author: Martin McDonagh

by Martin McDonagh

Thriller about a storyteller imprisoned and forced to create dark tales

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Martin McDonagh

McDonagh emerged from the mid-1990s as the most provocatively entertaining playwright on the British and Irish stage, writing savage black comedies set in a darkly mythologized rural Ireland. The Beauty Queen of Leenane established his reputation overnight.

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The Lieutenant of InishmoreViolent comedy about a IRA deserter seeking redemption in rural Ireland