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https://www.tickettailor.com/events/albanycivictheaterinc/1534544ACT’s next play is The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Ellen Cribbs
In an interrogation room in an unnamed totalitarian dictatorship, Katurian, a writer, is being interrogated by two detectives. Next door, Katurian’s intellectually disabled sibling Michal waits. The detectives want to know why Katurian’s stories feature gruesome plots about child murder and torture, and in particular, why they seem to mirror a string of recent child murders in the area. This brutal dark comedy from Martin McDonagh, the master of the horror-comedy, poses unanswerable questions: Can stories hold the power to cause atrocities? Where is the line between truth and fairy tale? Is a life of horror worth living at all? Drawing on inspiration as diverse as Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Kafka, and Antonin Artaud, The Pillowman is a dark, twisty, and utterly unforgettable masterpiece from one of Ireland’s most treasured writers.
Performance Dates – Three weekends:
February 14, 15, 16, / 21, 22, 23, / 28, March 1, 2.
Friday and Saturday @7:30; Sunday @3:00
Pay-What-You-Will preview Thursday, February 13 – 7:30
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
235 2nd Ave, Albany, NY, United States, New York 12209
