The Pillowman at Silver Spring Black Box Theater

The Pillowman

Silver Spring Black Box Theater
8641 Colesville Road Silver Spring

With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, The Pillowman centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art.

Thru - Apr 2, 2016

Price: $30-$35

Box Office: 240-644-1100

The Pillowman Reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...It is the rare police interrogation chamber that doubles as a shadow-puppetry stage. It's a rarer one still that also appears to be located inside a security-directorate meeting hall. But a single space serves all of those functions in director Yury Urnov's bold and largely effective interpretation of Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman." The latest offering from Forum Theatre, this deliberately unsettling, immersive production unfurls in and around a kind of brutalist jail cell surrounded by rows of chairs and conference tables (the audience seating area). The cell is sometimes swathed in plastic sheeting that relays shadow-puppet silhouettes - shapes that evoke the macabre tales written by the play's main character, Katurian."

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- Celia Wren

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"...The quite inventive three quarter framed stage by Scenic Designer Paige Hathaway created a scenario in which the actors stayed confined in and floated out in other ethereal sequences, letting the audience join in that particular dream—or nightmare. Director Yury Urnov, who has published translations of McDonagh’s work in Russian, infuses this performance with pace so that the ideas keep floating, unable to fall until the next one picks up. His deft combination of horror, wit and message left me breathless."

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- Brian Bochicchio

Theatre Bloom - Highly Recommended

"...We are not animals. We are watching. But what if we are animals and are not to be trusted? Forum Theatre brings to the stage in a fully immersive and unapologetically evocative experience Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. Directed by Yury Urnov, this deceptively dark drama and majestically macabre tale unfolds in a surreal reality that is simultaneously in the audience's periphery and just outside of their vision. Remarkably experiential, as the audience is quite literally the on-looking totalitarian dictatorship masses, this striking production will keep you unnaturally enthralled straight through to the show's shocking and deeply harrowing conclusion."

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- Amanda Gunther

The Pillowman at Silver Spring Black Box Theater

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Washington Post - Recommended

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Theatre Bloom - Highly Recommended

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