The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Stephen Drover
A Wild Geese Equity Co-op Production
Jericho Arts Centre
Feb 19 to Mar 6, 2011
Wed through Sun at 8 PM
Vancouver, BC: I freely confess - uncoerced by any implement of torture - that I probably viewed the Wild Geese Co-op production of The Pillowman through a different lens than most of their audiences will be using.
The Pillowman was the subject of my final term paper in a course on Modern British Drama and as an obsessively over-achieving mature student, I assiduously mined the text for every subtlety and nuance I could find. My issues were around authorial voice, whether "scriptor" or reader gives meaning to text, Death of the Author (concretized in McDonagh's script) ... and other such academic ideas.
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
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