The Pillowman opens in the LTCC Duke Theatre October 24

Submitted by paula on Sat, 10/19/2019 - 11:37pm
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Repeats every day until Sun Nov 03 2019 .
October 24, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 25, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 26, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 27, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 28, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 29, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 30, 2019 - 7:30pm
October 31, 2019 - 7:30pm
November 1, 2019 - 7:30pm
November 2, 2019 - 7:30pm
November 3, 2019 - 7:30pm

Black Ice Theatre Co. presents The Pillowman, the winner of two Tony Awards and the Olivier Award for Best Play. It was written by Martin McDonagh, the acclaimed author of In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The play will be performed on the Duke Theatre stage on the campus of Lake Tahoe Community College on October 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, November 1, 2, 3. All shows 7:30 p.m. except November 3 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $15-$20 and can be purchased here: https://thepillowman.brownpapertickets.com. (Show contains coarse language and adult content)

The play stars Gilberto Aguirre, Briana Biller, Michael Brumbaugh, Sharon Kerrigan, Haley Harness, Frank Riley, Richard S. Sargent, and Jered Stowell.

The Pillowman opens in a prison cell where a young writer is being questioned about the children's tales he has written, grim tales that have inspired copycat killings in the streets outside. Two interrogators tease out the resemblance between real and fictional worlds while probing the personal responsibility of the writer. Story piles upon story as the evening progresses, and the tension mounts when parallel interviews taking place in the adjoining cell with the writer's sister are revealed.

The Pillowman engages the audience in both recreating the fantastical tales written for children and in defending the rights of the storyteller. The laughter provoked by McDonagh's gift for language and the tension provoked by his sublime flair for plot override the emotions of fear and pity but never let the black comedy settle into complacency. The storytelling skill in The Pillowman will keep an audience on the edge of their seats to the last line.

The Pillowman celebrates the raw, vital human instinct to invent fantasies, to lie for sport, to con for ones own end. It is as dark a comedy as it is possible to find.

"A complex tale about life and art, about fact and illusion, about politics, society, cruelty and creativity." Financial Times

"Energizing...a blindingly bright black comedy." NY Times

"THE PILLOWMAN [is] thoroughly startling and genuinely intimidating." Chicago Tribune