The Pillowman
University Theatre - Friday 19th February 2010
Having watched an A Level short performance of The Pillowman I was really interested to see what the play was like as a whole and I was not disappointed.
The play was written in 2003 by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. An exhilarating dark tale of a writers twisted child murdering stories coming to life.
The acting was completely flawless; you could not say a bad word about any of the actors. They were a very talented group of young adults that could go on to be stars.
Chris Caines as Katurian, the author had an unbelievable amount of lines to learn and had to hold together the whole play but he did so amazingly, he was word perfect and delivered each line with the right amount of emotion.
Michal the brother with learning difficulties was absolutely brilliant. His movement and speech was spot on. He really created a sense of vulnerability and innocence, which then contrasted well with what he had done in acting out his brothers’ stories.
Ariel and Tupolski, the cops where like a comedy duo, playing the ‘good cop bad cop’ stereotype perfectly, they injected humour into the piece which had the audience in fits.
The set was very simplistic but I liked that as I think it gave the actors the chance to stand out and show how talented they are, that they do not need big fancy sets in order to look good.
Although this play was almost three hours long I found the time seemed to fly by as I was so gripped by the action. As a first performance by a newly developed theatre company I would say it was a great success and I wish them every luck in the future.
Link to the events page for this production http://www.bathspampa.com/bathspalive/event-view.php?location=%2Fevents%2Fevent257
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