The Pillowman
枕头人
April 23-24, 2022, Madison
Gilbert V. Hemsley Theatre, UW-Madison
Written by Martin McDonagh
Translated by Kaiqi Hu
Produced by Saying Theatre戏言剧社
Directed by Bill Ding
A 2003 play by British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre child murders occurring in his town.
( The show is performed in Mandarin Chinese with live English Subtitles)
(Note that the video is in Chinese without subtitles)
Creative Team
Producer/Stage Manager: Dandi Chen
Director: Bill Ding
Assistant Director:Yanni Zhang, Cecilia Nie, Mathilda Guan
Scenic Designer: Pengyu Mo, Junyu Liu
Technical Director: Haoming Meng
Lighting Designer: Junda Li, Haoming Meng
Sound Designer: Fina Zhou, Yiping He
Costume Designer/Wardrobe Supervisor/Makeup Supervisor: Jiaming Xie
Props Master: Xiyu Cao, Yujia Zhang
Assistant Props Master: Xinran Xie
Makeup Artist: Yanni Zhang, Xiaotian Wei, Xiaoya Gong, Huiqian Yi
Assistant Stage Manager: Xiaotian Wei, Xinyuan Wu, Siyu Zeng
Wardrobe crew: Huiqian Yi, Siyu Zeng, Ziyan Zhou
Scriptwriter/Translation: Shenghao Dai, Sijin Chen, Mingyu Li
Photographer/Video Recording/Graphic Designer: Shelyn Sui, Zheran Zhang, Binyang Wang, Hugo Guo
Financial Specialist: Huiqian Yi
Secretary: Xiaofei Qu
Outreach Coordinator: Shuqing You
Promotion Team: Xinyi Zhang, Ziyan Zhou, Peiyuan Gao
Cast
Katurian: Xueheng Wang
Tupolski: Xinyuan Wu
Ariel: Yao Sun
Michal: Yuancheng Fu
Narrator#1/Little Girl/Little Jesus/Little Green Pig: Ziyan Gao
Narrator#2/Pillowman/Drunk: Yisen Wang
Mother: Junyu Liu
Father: Junda Li
