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Journal articles on the topic "The Pillowman"

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Shermeyer, Kelli. "Catastrophic Futures: Tragic Children in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 7, no. 2 (November 7, 2019): 297–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2019-0026.

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Abstract Through an analysis of Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman, this article explores the roles children play as avatars of futurity and tragic personages whose actions bid us to reflect on repetitive patterns of suffering. To this end, I suggest that we might productively engage with The Pillowman through the dramaturgical structures of tragedy, particularly insofar as tragedy revolves around catastrophic events in the family. While most previous scholarship on The Pillowman has focused on the protagonist, Katurian, and his social or moral obligations as an author, my work places the children of Katurian’s stories at the center of the play’s philosophical cruxes. Not yet fully socialized into societal paradigms that frame the replication of present circumstances, ideologies, and inequities as “progress,” the children of this play disrupt dominant tragic structures, offer catastrophic responses to abuse, and emphasize the absurdity of certain cultural narratives of justice and salvation. My readings are widely informed by the fields of tragic theory, childhood studies, critical posthumanism, and performance studies.
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Abdulhasan Ali, Basma, and Sabah Atallah Diyaiy. "Violence in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman." Al-Adab Journal 2, no. 136 (March 15, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i136.1279.

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The 1990s have been of utmost importance for Ireland and the Irish as this decade is characterised by a great diversity of problems: economic problems, unemployment and migration which came as a result of these problems, racial harassment experienced abroad, psychological problems, the Troubles whose serious impact was felt not only in Northern Ireland but also in the Republic of Ireland, which emerged as a consequence of the conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants because of the political status of Northern Ireland and which began at the end of the 1960s and ended in 1998 with Belfast Agreement; self-centeredness emerging as a repercussion of the Celtic Tiger period which was witnessed between 1995 and 2000 and which means economic development in Ireland, and, lastly, the problem of violence. Martin McDonagh, an Anglo-Irish playwright represents these problems emphasising the problem of violence encountered in this decade in a satirical but grotesque way particularly in The Pillowman.
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Worthen, Hana, and W. B. Worthen. "The Pillowman and the Ethics of Allegory." Modern Drama 49, no. 2 (May 2006): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.49.2.155.

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O'Neill, Michael Charles. "Mourning Becomes Electra, and: The Pillowman (review)." Theatre Journal 56, no. 4 (2004): 688–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tj.2004.0191.

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Kiran, Sobia. "Artistic Portrayal of Death as a Refuge from Morbidity: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2017): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n1p101.

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The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane are psychological plays that deal with the relationship between Art, Death and Morbidity. Death is an artistic solution to put an end to the morbidity of attitude caused by toxic relationships, social conventions, and totalitarian institutions. Death, may it take form of suicide or murder, is presented as a Saviour to escape the torture, suffering, depression and tyranny. Art is the creative realm of death, a defensive tool or a protective shield against the repressed uneasy traumatic memories that causes extreme unpleasure. The objective of the paper is to explore the artistic portrayal of death as a refuge from morbidity addressing the research questions 1) How do 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane and The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh suggest death as an escape from psychosis and life of suffering? 2) How does art become a source of realization of Death drive taking form of murder or suicide?
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Butler, Thomas. "A Story's Place in the World: Martin McDonagh's THE PILLOWMAN." Explicator 71, no. 1 (January 2013): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2012.758618.

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Akşehir-Uygur, Mahinur. "Crush Humanity One More Time: Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman in Žižekian Terms." New Theatre Quarterly 33, no. 4 (October 11, 2017): 360–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x17000495.

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Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman dramatizes the interrogation and torture of a horror fiction writer, Katurian, whose stories have been re-enacted in ‘real’ life without his knowledge. The audience gradually finds out that the murders are the crimes of Michal, Katurian's mentally retarded brother, who had been physically tortured by his parents in childhood, until Katurian murdered them. Upon Michal's confession, Katurian has to kill his brother to save him from the suffering and torture to come. Subsequently, it becomes clear that the two interrogators also suffer from the violent childhoods they re-enact with the violence they inflict on their suspects. It appears that all kinds of violence in the play are somehow justified, and treated in such a complex way that it becomes hard to draw boundaries between victims and perpetrators. The depiction of violence can, however, also be examined in dimensions that trigger and shape each other: the violence of the totalitarian state directed against the individual and the artist; domestic violence; the fictional violence found in Katurian's stories. Read through Slavoy Žižek's theory of violence, which also highlights the interconnected nature of its several kinds, The Pillowman can be observed to create a panoramic view of its subject. Mahinur Akşehir-Uygur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Manisa Celal Bayar University in Manisa, Turkey. Her areas of interest are satirical literature, contemporary fiction, and women's literature.
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Carroll, Noël. "Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, or The Justification of Literature." Philosophy and Literature 35, no. 1 (2011): 168–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2011.0006.

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Cho, Yeon-iee. "The Storyteller’s Dilemma : Allegory of Violence and Redemption in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman." Journal of Modern English Drama 31, no. 2 (August 31, 2018): 159–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.29163/jmed.2018.8.31.2.159.

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Yeon Hwan Lee. "The Repressive Family Culture and the Origin of Fairytale Violence: Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman." English21 32, no. 1 (March 2019): 51–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.35771/engdoi.2019.32.1.003.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "The Pillowman"

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Farrelly, Ann Dillon. ""It depends on the fella. And the cat." negotiating humanness through the myth of Irish identity in the plays of Martin McDonagh /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086104442.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 189 p. Advisor: Joy Reilly, Theatre Graduate Program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187).
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Wang, Si-Jyuan, and 王僖絹. "《The Pillowman》Stage Design Project." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r6ujp8.

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國立中山大學
劇場藝術學系碩士班
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This paper is a creation description elaborating on the process of how the author used stage design to interpret an emerging play, The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh. The Pillowman, a play that reflects the quest for personal life experience, was selected for stage design, and Chiang Wei-Shui Theater was where the stage design was carried out. The author attempted to interpret the play from a narrator’s point of view to analyze the spiritual world of Katurian, who is a writer in the play. The spiritual world was transformed into specific visual impressions and integrated with the scenes in reality; this special framework of the stage corresponded to the narrativity in the play and the characteristic of being juxtaposed with scenes in reality, and in turn consolidated the entire play’s atmosphere. In the creation process, after a play was firstly selected, relevant symbols were extracted to develop visual form through research and analysis of background information of The Pillowman. Then, after case analysis and comparisons of performance forms and styles were made, the concept of using perspectives of characters in the play as the theme of creation was developed for the content of stage design, with the assistance of material and image processing. Design works encompass the blueprint of stage design, the costume design drawings, the stage model drawings, the technical images of the stage, and the graphics of lighting simulation. The overall creation is not only a realism representation, but also a space allowing the audience to think and imagine.
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Tsai, Chun-Wei, and 蔡純瑋. "Where Narratives Meet: A Study of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ck94xk.

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國立臺灣大學
戲劇學研究所
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As a metafictional play, Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman consists of numerous puzzles and twists that make the play itself as a work of narrative art. By using and amending existing theories of narrative, philosophy of art, and polyphonic novel, this research attempts to point out how The Pillowman illustrates these discourses through which we enter into the significance of its multiple structures and stories, and the relation between the two. In terms of structure, this thesis, by applying narrative theories, confirms multiple narrators’ presence and functions in The Pillowman. In light of the rhetorical narratology, narrative voices in the play can be social phenomena in which the ideas of author and narrator are so integrated that causes the protagonist Katurian to be destructed by external and internal forces. Moreover, the quality of being virtually real in theatre allows Katurian an omniscient perspective as a narrator, storyteller and author, while he cannot feel guilty about his own mixed roles in the incidents he creates. This thesis also analyzes the narrative techniques used in The Pillowman, specifying how its characters embody the inseparable dualism, for instance, reason/ madness, subjectivity/ objectivity. The juxtaposition of these conflicting concepts manifests the controversy over characters. That is, their various judgments on Katurian reflect how diverse the interpretations of Katurian’s stories can be. Having ensured the reliability of different narratives, the play allows the audience to see causes and effects of incidents from different perspectives in this play. The Pillowman is a polyphonic play in which Katurian’s mixed roles result in his ambiguous narrative positions. With diverse points of view, the play invites the audience to reevaluate their sense of morality. The play, therefore, is a work of narrative art that not only guarantees the dialogue between various ethical concepts but also extends the limits of different narratives. As a fictional work that questions the feasibility of narratology, The Pillowman is where narratives meet, and where more dialogues begin.
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Books on the topic "The Pillowman"

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McDonagh, Martin. The Pillowman. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.

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The Pillowman. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.

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McDonagh, Martin. The Pillowman. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.

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The pillowman. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2003.

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Berkner, Laurie. Pillowland. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

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McDonagh, Martin. The Pillowman: A Play. Faber & Faber, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "The Pillowman"

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Rees, Catherine. "Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman and the Postmodern Gothic." In Contemporary Gothic Drama, 61–73. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95359-2_4.

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Funk, Wolfgang. "Histories of Violence — Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman." In Performing Masculinity, 185–209. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230276086_12.

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Hodge, Matthew. "Staging Theatrical Child-Centric Violence." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 50–72. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch004.

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Prolific and controversial British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has built a prominent career on genre-bending works that combine irreverent humor and aggressive violence. His award-winning black comedy play The Pillowman, which premiered in 2003 at London's renowned National Theatre, is one of the playwright's most well-known and divisive pieces of theatre. Arguably, the play's most memorable moments involve segments reenacting original twisted fairy tale-esque stories. The majority of McDonagh's dark tales center on children characters enduring acts of violence and cruelty, ultimately concluding with disturbing endings. The Pillowman script offers few instructions in its storytelling scenes, allowing—even demanding—artistic ownership of each production's unique aesthetic approach to the unsettling material. This chapter discusses the divisiveness of McDonagh's work, his inspiration from violence in historical fairy tales, and the sensitive considerations and controversies theatre leadership teams must ponder when staging fictionalized child-centric violence.
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Worthen, Hana, and W. B. Worthen. "10. The Pillowman and the Ethics of Allegory." In Reading Modern Drama, edited by Alan Ackerman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442661486-012.

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"Martin McDonagh'sThe Pillowman, or The Justification of Literature." In Minerva's Night Out, 276–88. Oxford: A John Wiley & Sons, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118322925.ch18.

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"The Pillowman: A new story to tell brian cliff." In Martin McDonagh, 141–58. Routledge, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203935859-15.

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"Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual." In Fables of the Law, 355–72. De Gruyter, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110496680-018.

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