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Despite its dark subject matter, director Maria-Ilinca Radulian ’11 describes the tone of “The Pillowman” as “playful...
...most amusing act of “Coppélia” was the second, as both Swanilda and Frantz delved into mischief. Swanilda and her friends crept through the dark scenery of Dr. Coppélius’s home, winding up his elaborate mechanical dolls to dance around the workshop. Kuranaga revealed her girlish good when she disguised herself as Dr. Coppélius’s beloved doll, fooling the old toy-maker into thinking his masterwork had come to life. Dr. Coppélius, played by the comical Boyko Dossev, hobbled around the stage in delight...
Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” tells a tale of childhood trauma, violent political oppression, and a writer whose twisted stories gruesomely come to life. Yet in spite of its dark subject matters, it’s ingeniously hilarious...
...It’s an intense play,” says visiting scholar James R. Morris, who plays the unfortunate writer and protagonist, Katurian. “But it’s also very funny, and places brilliant moments of dark comedy alongside a real range of emotions...
...believe that this kind of story which is so dark, about people getting tortured and censored and executed, can only be told through humor and poetry,” Radulian says. “We’re basically treating it as a fairy tale and enacting it as a fairy tale, and like all fairy tales, it’s based on something true in society—psychological things, trends, dark undercurrents...