TORTUROUS TALES: Short story writer Katurian (Shawn Fennell) awaits his interrogators in Theatre Intime’s production of Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman,” at the Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus through April 5.
TORTUROUS TALES: Short story writer Katurian (Shawn Fennell) awaits his interrogators in Theatre Intime’s production of Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman,” at the Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus through April 5. |
More than 400 years after Shakespeare’s tragic “pillowman” Othello first took Desdemona’s life in their bedroom by smothering her with a pillow, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh created The Pillowman (2003), a contemporary horror story with more than one pillow-murder of its own.
The Trenton War Memorial has been renovated significantly in recent years, to the point that the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra now considers the hall one of its usual stops throughout the state during the course of the year. The hall is somewhat cavernous compared to the ensemble’s other performing homes, but Friday night’s concert by the orchestra indicated that the players are versatile enough to play to their hall, adjusting to maintain clarity and a clean sound.