#katurian

[sneakertin]

still thinking about how half a year ago i saw these pictures from the original production of 'the pillowman' starring dt and got curious. so i read the play. and it turned out to be the best piece of literature i have ever read in my entire life. and ever since then i've been obsessed with this story and these characters but literally no one knows about this play so it's just me. sitting here. in my little puddle of dirt....

#this is such an obscure little interest of mine #i am pained by the fact that there is no recording of the original production #i mean there is but you can only watch it if you make an appointment at some theater archive in london or something #if i ever find myself in london i will probably do that #it almost feels like the character of katurian was written for dt #the things i would do to see or hear him perform it aurghah #there are a few amateur productions online but they're all pretty shit #anyway #please read it i am begging you #i'm loosing my mind over here #david tennant #the pillowman #martin mcdonagh #literature #theater #theatre #books #book recommendations #book reccs #katurian #help me #had to get this out of my system #my post

[cinematic-literature]

In Bruges (2008) by Martin McDonagh

Book title: The Death of Capone by K. K. Katurian

#In bruges #brendan gleeson #martin mcdonagh #The death of Capone #K. K. Katurian #fictitious books in movies #books in movies #fictitious books

[sheldoncooperapologist]

hot take: anyone criticising Lily Allen's performance in The Pillowman is just upset over Katurian being played by a woman

#grow up #she absolutely smashed it #it's my new favourite play #she was so so good #along with everyone else; in particular steve pemberton and the guy that played ariel (forgive me cannot remember his name) #There is no valid reason Katurian cannot be a girl #I thought it worked really well #The story of the writers brother was a bit confusing but that's it #tbh i thought it worked well anyone since it just seems like Katurian was trying to separate herself from the story a bit #still bitter at the two prissy women complaining about it during interval #the pillowman #lily allen #west end #theatre

[greenonthefruittree]

why does nobody talk about michal katurian

#the pillowman #michal katurian #katurian k katurian

[bpdjennamaroney]

katurian needing to save his stories because if he doesn’t then his suffering and his brother’s suffering and his whole life would have been for nothing…aahhh

#the pillowman

[straightplayshowdown]

The Pillowman: Katurian, a writer of short stories that often depict violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, because some of his stories resemble recent child murders. Although Katurian knows he himself is not guilty, someone else is.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist: The Milan police force has been wildly condemned by the public following the death of a young, falsely-accused anarchist after his interrogation at their hands. Official reports of the incident conflict: in the first report, the man’s death is listed as “accidental,” whereas it is later listed as “suicide.” In the midst of this, the Maniac is hauled into the police station on charges of “impersonation.” The Maniac knows the police cannot hold him, as he has been legally-certified insane, and takes the opportunity to impersonate a judge sent to reopen the inquiry into the anarchist death, a forensic expert, and a bishop. Through his probing, hilarious, and shocking investigation, the Maniac reveals himself to be a hero to the people--and the police department’s worst nightmare.

Propaganda under the cut!

The Pillowman:

A writer (Katurian) known for his gruesome works of literature - specifically about children dying - is locked up after two recent murders in his area have occurred in the exact same way two of his works of fiction has. He’s strongly believed to be the culprit, although he is not. He is interrogated by “good cop” (Tupolski) and “bad cop” (Ariel). Katurian is beyond clueless, until he finds out his brain-damaged brother (Michal) was the one who committed the crimes. Throughout the show, Katurian recites his stories, including: The Little Apple Men, The Three Gibbet Crossroads, The Tale of the Town on the River, The Pillowman, The Little Green Pig, The Little Jesus, and The Writer And The Writer’s Brother. It overall combines the fantasy from Katurian’s stories with the darkness of the reality of life and death.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist:

The main character is literally named "The Maniac". It's about a guy outwitted a bunch of cops. It ends with an explosion. A cop is named Pissani

#polls #round 1 #the pillowman #accidental death of an anarchist #the straight play showdown

[romeoisalesbian]

i am keeping track of every play i've read. and i need to put it somewhere

this list is long so im putting it under a cut

The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh - really interesting read, i keep going back and forth on how I feel about it which is a sign that it's REALLY well-crafted. Pieces: Katurian (act 1, mostly), Ariel (act 3, mostly).

Hamlet - William Shakespeare - what a good play!

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Titus Andronichus - William Shakespeare

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

Henry V - William Shakespeare

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Fences - August Wilson

Agamemmnon - Aeschylus

Electra - Sophocles - modern story conventions mean this play doesn't age well. Contemporarily, the drama of the play is centered around whether Electra will do matricide/step-patricide (with the audience at least hypothetically against the matricide), but modern story structures lessen this drama and turmoil because of moral changes -- it seems arbitrary that Orestes has to do the murder, and Clytaemnestra can be a little girlbossified. Pieces: see conversation between Electra and her sister, maybe.

Medea - Euripides - you don't need me to tell you this play is good.

The Frogs - Aristophanes

Phaedra - Seneca

Fat Ham - James Ijames

Fences - August Wilson

LOVE/SICK - John Cariani

Almost, Maine - John Cariani

Late: A Cowboy Song - Sarah Ruhl - I need to read more Sarah Ruhl

Fairview - Jackie Sibblies Drury

Intimate Apparel - Lynn Nottage

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adler Guirgis

12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose

The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman & The Tectonic Theatre Project

You and Me and the Space Between - Finegan Kruckemeyer

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing - Finegan Kruckemeyer

The Book of Will - Lauren Gunderson

MilkMilkLemonade - Joshua Conkel

You on the Moors Now - Jaclyn Backhaus

The Metamorphoses - Mary Zimmerman

Fuddy Meers - David Lindsay-Abaire

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House Part 2 - Lucas Hnath

Men on Boats - Jaclyn Backhaus

The Snow - Finegan Kruckemeyer

The Phantom Tollbooth - Susan Nanus

Digging Up Dessa - Laura Schellhardt

Actually - Anna Ziegler - i'm not sure how I feel about this play. both characetrs are strongly written. a lot of potential for monologues.

#play list #personal #if anyone needs any piece reccomendations from any of these i may be able to help scrounge up one #i have some access to some monologues and scenes such B)

[bisonaari]

You should check out the songs I added by Rosalia and the ones from C. Tangana, those are the best ones imo!

- Katurian

It shuffle only!!! So everyone's recs has a chance to reach me, no propaganda allowed 😌

[lyndonriggall]

Why I’m Performing in The Pillowman in Five Days

Time moves quickly. I think it was only a moment ago that we had months ahead of us to rehearse, and yet that expanse of time has receded as swiftly as waves on the shore. Somehow, I have very quickly reached a point where I have only five days before I will be acting on-stage at Launceston’s Earl Arts Centre, for the first time in fifteen years. I am playing the part of Katurian the writer (originated by David Tennant in the 2003 premiere of the play, and most recently in 2023 by Lily Allen) in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, directed by Mitchell Langley for the Launceston Players, which also stars Travis Hennessy as Tupolski, Lauchy Hansen as Ariel, Jesse Apted as Michal, and Renee Bakker, Michael Mason and Eva Cetti in various roles. As the play begins, my character is dragged in for questioning by the police. He writes powerful—but very disturbing—short stories, and it seems that someone is bringing those short stories to life.

Wouldn’t it make sense that he has something to do with it?

It all sounds pretty grim (and in many ways it is), but if you are at all familiar with McDonagh’s writing then you’ll know that he can be relied upon to strike an electrifying balance between horror and comedy. His works include The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001), A Behanding in Spokane (2010) and Hangmen (2015) for the stage, while more recently he has made his name as the Academy Award-winning writer and director of In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). While The Pillowman is undoubtedly one of the darkest plays I’ve ever come across, it is also one of the funniest.

A year ago, I probably would have considered it unlikely that I would find myself here. In fact, I find it pretty unlikely even now, just days away from opening night. So why did I want to be part of The Pillowman? Aside from the obvious strengths of the team behind the project (who have taught me so much, whilst also giving me the delightful and terrifying challenge of trying to prove my right to share the same stage as them), this is a play that is very close to my heart. In 2008, in my Year 12 Theatre class, my teacher Nicole assigned me Tupolski’s famous railroad tracks monologue as my assessment piece, which I also later performed at a college academic awards night.  Ambitious creature that I was, I wouldn’t dare perform something like that without first having its context in the whole work. She lent me a copy of the play—the first time I had seen one of those strange slim paperbacks with no picture on the cover (this one was orange, as is the copy I am learning my lines from now). I went home and read it. I was laughing, I was shocked, and I was moved, all in equal measure. Oh, of course there’s something special about a work of literature that finds you on the cusp of a new phase of life, and most of my favourite books are books that I found (or that found me) that year. But aside from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (which I also discovered just before finishing school, and found myself falling into, and have since found it very hard to clamber back out of), The Pillowman swiftly became my favourite play, and Martin McDonagh my favourite living playwright. There have been a number of times on this blog where I have talked about the challenge of balance, how we prioritise and choose what to spend our precious limited time and our creative resources on. For me, the only thing worse than having the burden of auditioning for The Pillowman, being offered a part in it, and rehearsing and performing it, was the horrifying thought that someone else might get to do it in my place.

And so, here I am.

In my teaching of English, one of the most important concepts that I discuss with students is that of an “invited reading.” What I mean by this is not merely what the author (or even a character) says, but what the audience is supposed to take away as its meaning. Bad things happen in literature, but the existence of evil as a narrative element is not necessarily an endorsement of it, even if it might be tempting and easy to think so. In our inattentive world of click-bait headlines, out-of-context soundbites and addiction to outrage, it can be very easy to mistake a single puzzle piece for the whole picture, and while it happens constantly, it happens at our own peril. This is the very essence of what The Pillowman is asking us to consider: what stories are we allowed to tell? How do we shape the audience’s understanding of what we are trying to say? Can we shape the audience’s understanding of what we are trying to say? Should we be expected to? In the end, is it even fair to say that stories mean anything at all?

In a prescient update relating to the show’s themes, on World Poetry Day last month, PEN International released “War, Censorship, and Persecution,” an international case list for 2023/2024, highlighting the latest challenges for writers in global conflicts and emphasising the need to safeguard freedom of expression, especially in war-torn regions. The report documents 122 cases of writers facing harassment, arrest, violence and death worldwide. This is why the tale of Katurian still matters: because we do not yet live in a world where you can be sure that a story will not cost you your life.

A few days out from opening night, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I was a little scared. There is never a moment where I am not on-stage in the play. Playing Katurian as a return to performance is the theatrical equivalent of “having another go at swimming” by throwing myself into the churning waters of the Atlantic.

But that’s the point, isn’t it? I’m scared. Oh yes, I’m scared. But I have a story that needs telling.

The Launceston Players Production of The Pillowman, directed by Mitchell Langley, is on-stage at the Earl Arts Centre Wednesday 24th April at 7:30pm, Thursday 25th April at 4:30pm, Friday 26th April at 7:30pm, and Saturday 27th April at 2:00pm and 7:30pm. Tickets are still available at Theatre North.

#thepillowman #pillowman #launceston players #original

[azurdlywisterious]

Why is this computer update taking so long I just wanna animate Danny expositing about his life via a MARINA song

And also amata and Butch and Godfrey and Enid are there but this isn’t about them it’s about my dear sweet Katurian Katurian Katurian taking forever to update

#I swear is this doesn’t fix the audio issues I will lose my actual mind #UPDATE: the audio issues are fixed #UPDATE UPDATE: spoke too fucking soon!!! #FINAL UPDATE: the fix is just playing random songs in a different program everytime the problem crops up🤷‍♀️ #weird ass bug frfr

[sneakertin]

okay so i'm rereading 'the pillowman' again and god the progression of their relationship throughout the second act is HURTING me

#if you haven't read this play i suggest you do #it's the best piece of literature i have ever read in my entire life #i love it so much and not just because david tennant played katurian in the original production #as an only child i am a big sucker for well written sibling relationships #and it's so funny too as well as tragic #martin mcdonagh does dark humor so well #he makes you laugh at the things you never thought you would laugh at #and it almost makes you feel guilty #martin mcdonagh #the pillowman #literature #my post

[alex-the-large]

Imagine young Malcolm McDowell as Katurian from The Pillowman.

#malcolm mcdowell #the pillowman #such a shame it only came out in 03

[showbiznews]

[znewstech]

Hyderabad-based theatre artiste Jonas David’s new play The Pillowman is a Thriller on stage

Hyderabad-based theatre artiste Jonas David’s new play The Pillowman is a Thriller on stage

Actor Jonas David who plays the role of writer Katurian, shares how acting helps him deal with different things Actor Jonas David who plays the role of writer Katurian, shares how acting helps him deal with different things City-based Storyboard Productions and Preksha Theatre Company are set to raise the curtains on its newest play The Pillowman on October 15. Directed by Sandeep Tadi, the 2…

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[greenonthefruittree]

naming your kid katurian katurian katurian has got to be an extra variable in your evil science experiment that clearly was not accounted for

#the pillowman

[bpdjennamaroney]

if there were an available recording of david tennant as katurian there would be such a woobie blorboificafion of the pillowman and honestly…i’d probably get in on it