For its season opener, New Rep presents last season’s Tony-Award winning hit, The Pillowman. In an unidentified totalitarian state, Katurian - a butcher by day, a writer of haunting fairy tales by night – faces two interrogators from the local police force. As Katurian soon learns, his stories, in which characters meet grisly and macabre fates, have inspired a string of copycat crimes. As the police resort to increasingly absurd and hilariously unconventional methods to crack the case, Katurian’s stories come to life, blurring the line between fact and fiction, truth and storytelling. In The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh celebrates with dark humor the spellbinding power of narrative, while exploring the dark corners of the human imagination and the delicate balance between the freedoms of the individual and the security of the state.

“The season’s most exciting and original new play.” – New York Times

Top 10 Plays of 2005 - Time Magazine

by Martin McDonagh
New England Premiere
directed by Rick Lombardo**

John Howell Hood, scenic design and projected imagery***
Frances Nelson McSherry, costume design***
John Malinowki, lighting design
Haddon Givens Kime, original music
Rick Lombardo, sound design
Robert Walsh, fight direction
Cheryl D. Olszowka, production stage manager*
Carola Morrone, assistant stage manager*

CAST (in order of appearance)
John Kuntz*, Katurian
Steven Barkhimer*, Tupolski
Phillip Patrone*, Ariel
Rachel Harker*, Mother
Stephen Cooper, Father
Bradley Thoennes*, Michal
Rebecca Stevens, Girl
Matthew Scott Robertson, Boy

*member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
**member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union
***member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829