Gwen in Purgatory

31 July - 19 September

Namatjira

25 September - 7 November

The Bougainville Photoplay Project

9 November - 28 November

The Diary of a Madman

4 December - 6 February

“seriously good” Sunday Telegraph

“compelling energy and fascination” The Sydney Morning Herald

“treads the line between comedy and horror” The Australian

Martin McDonagh

Craig Ilott

With
Marton Csokas, Lauren Elton, Damon Herriman, Dan Wyllie, Steve Rodgers, Amanda Bishop and David Terry

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“Spellbinding stunner of a play” The New York Times

Martin McDonagh’s blindfolded fairytale The Pillowman has been a gleeful, award-winning triumph in London and New York. McDonagh first took the theatre world by its throat with the Leenane Trilogy, and we had a live-wire success with The Lieutenant of Inishmore in 2003. Now Company B’s playing host to his gruesomely funny celebration of our irrepressible urge to tell tales.

Katurian is in an interrogation cell and he’s not sure why, but he thinks it might have something to do with what he’s written. Enter a pair of nasty cops and a wide-eyed brother, and McDonagh’s deer-in-the-headlights storytelling unfolds with all the suspense and horror of a fabulous thriller.

The Pillowman is as black as comedy gets: hair-raising and blow-by-blow funny. Secretly it might be about the power of tenderness and thoughtfulness. Or it might be about the deadly responsibilities of artists. Either way, it’s a captivating and perversely entertaining experiment with the dangerous power of those ageless words, ‘Once upon a time…’

Craig Ilott created a sensation with his production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and now he makes his much-anticipated Company B debut with The Pillowman. And the marvellous Damon Herriman is ready and eager to take the plunge. This is the kind of horrible fun we know we shouldn’t really have (but do).