"The Pillowman" - by Martin McDonagh - Colonial Chorus Players (Reading, MA.)
Colonial Chorus Players
Presents Martin McDonagh's
"THE PILLOWMAN"
Written by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Corey Cadigan
Produced by Jennifer Estabrooks
Assistant Produced and Stage Managed by Michaelyn St. Pierre
Performances:
October 2, 2026 through October 11, 2026
(Contact Box Office for Exact Times)
For more information call # 781-944-9780, email info@1961.org or visit the Colonial Chorus website at: ccp1961.org
Performances to be held at the Old Hose House Theater, 1249 Main Street, Reading, MA. 01867
TICKETS
Please email the Colonial Chorus Box Office at tickets@ccp1961.org.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Winner of two Tony Awards and two Drama Desk Awards!
In Martin McDonagh's "THE PILLOWMAN" - This dark, satirical play weaves a complex tale about life and art, fact and illusion, politics and society, and creative freedom and censorship.
In an interrogation room in an unnamed totalitarian dictatorship, Katurian Katurian, a writer, is being interrogated by two detectives.
Next door, Katurian’s mentally disabled brother Michal waits.
The detectives want to know why Katurian’s stories feature gruesome plots about child murder and torture, and in particular, why they seem to mirror a string of recent child murders in the area.
This brutal dark comedy from Martin McDonagh, the master of the horror-comedy, poses unanswerable questions:
- Can stories hold the power to cause atrocities?
- Where is the line between truth and fairy tale?
- Is a life of horror worth living at all?
Drawing on inspiration as diverse as Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Kafka and Antonin Artaud, "THE PILLOWMAN" is a dark, twisty and utterly unforgettable masterpiece from one of Ireland’s most treasured writers. (STAGEAGENT)
ABOUT COLONIAL CHORUS PLAYERS (CCP)
MISSION
COLONIAL CHORUS PLAYERS (established 1961) provides quality theatrical entertainment that showcases the diverse talents of our family of members and volunteers, both on and off stage, and educates people of all ages in the theater arts through mentoring, workshops and summer programs.
VISION
To provide a vital performing arts outlet that inspires creative community involvement, educating and supporting lovers of musical theater and the arts, while producing quality entertainment. This includes our dream of renovating and expanding the Old Hose House into a state-of-the-art blackbox theater and rehearsal space.
P.O. Box 443
Reading, MA. 01867
# 781-944-9780
