McDonagh Play for Unicorn Theatre

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, will lead off The Unicorn Theatre's 2006-2007 season. Previously the Unicorn have staged McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Cripple of Inishmaan.

We call McDonagh Irish because we want him to be. For some years now he himself seems to be happy with the description of 'Anglo-Irish', which makes more sense for a playwright born and brought up in London.

With Irish parents and all those summer trips to Galway though, he has managed to inherit JM Synge's Irish world without having to go through what Synge did when Playboy of the Western World was first staged 100 years ago.

That said, The Pillowman is a different kind of play to the Aran Island and Leenane award-laden trilogies, owing perhaps more to Beckett than Synge, even if Beckett himself drew from Synge. The Pillowman runs from August 30-September 24, 2006.

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