The Pillowman
Production Design
Written by Martin Mcdonagh
Translated by Kaiqi Hu
Director - Zui Tao
Production Designer - Jessica (Wenjing) JI
Lighting Designer - Yuqing Wang
Sound Designer - Yifan Chen
Production Photographed by Yangon Ge
[This production is performed in MANDARIN.] 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. When he hears that his brother Michal has confessed to the murders and implicated Katurian, he resigns himself to being executed but attempts to save his stories from destruction. The play contains both narrations and reenactments of several of Katurian's stories, including the autobiographical "The Writer and the Writer's Brother", which tells how Katurian developed his disturbed imagination by hearing the sounds of Michal being tortured by their parents.