The pillow man

The pillow man (original title "The Pillowman") is a play by the contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh .

The central figure in the play is the writer Katurian K. Katurian, who is interrogated and tortured by two officers together with his mentally disabled brother at a police station in a fictional totalitarian regime. The two hold his stories in front of him, in which children are regularly mistreated and sometimes murdered in a cruel manner. It later emerges that some murders were committed exactly along the lines of his stories. Little by little, the viewer learns about the childhood experiences of Katurian and his brother, but also of the two police officers.

On November 13, 2003 the play was performed for the first time at the Royal National Theater in London with David Tennant and Jim Broadbent in the leading roles. a. Productions on Broadway in the Booth Theater, the Vienna Burgtheater and the Munich Residenztheater .

In 2004 it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and the Broadway production won the Drama Critics Circle Award and several other awards.