Katurian

Katurian

Katurian (full name Katurian Katurian Katurian) is a fictitious character taken from "The Pillowman", a play written by Martin McDonagh. In the play, Katurian is a writer of short stories, who is interrogated for their gruesome content and their similarities to a series of child murders occurring in his home town.

Katurian's brother, Michal, had been horribly abused as a child, and Katurian heard his screams through the next room. Katurian, however, never knew what he was hearing, or even that he had a brother. Only on the night of his fourteenth birthday did he find out. Katurian found a note, slipped under the locked door of the room next door. The note said that Katurian had a brother who had been tortured for seven straight years and that their parents had spoiled Katurian for the same amount of time. Katurian broke through the door with an axe and found his brother, and he then smothered both of his parents with a pillow and buried them by a wishing well.

However, Katurian writes a story "The Writer and the Writer's Brother" which has a different ending. In that ending, the boy finds his parents behind the door instead playing with drills and other mechanical tools. They told him the whole scenario was a test, and on the back of the note written in what looked like blood was an announcement of Katurian's winning a writing competition. They moved soon after. Years later, Katurian returned to the house where he grew up, and in the room where he had heard the torturing sounds, he found, hidden under the mattress, his brother, who was dead, but holding a story that was better than anything that he ever could have written.

This incident had a lasting effect on both siblings. Michal was now slow to get things and Katurian was, of course, horrified, and rather than writing the cheerful stories he had once written, like "The Little Green Pig," he wrote stories about children being tortured and killed. At one point Michal says to Katurian, who had just been tortured by two detectives, that it was easier from this side (meaning that it was easier listening to the sounds of torture than to actually be tortured).

David Tennant first performed the role for the Royal National Theatre.On Broadway, Katurian was played by actor Billy Crudup. [http://www.amrep.org/people/kuntz.html John Kuntz] played the role in the New England premiere.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • The Pillowman — Infobox Play name = The Pillowman image size = 150px caption = writer = Martin McDonagh characters = Katurian Tupolski Ariel Michal subject = genre = Black comedy setting = premiere = 13 November 2003 place = Cottesloe Theatre London, England… …   Wikipedia

  • Craig Parker — Données clés Nom de naissance Craig Parker Naissance 12 novembre 1970 (1970 11 12) (41 ans) Suva, (Fidji). Nationalité …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Ryan Case — (born 1975, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an award winning stage actor, who has also performed on radio and television. He primarily works in regional theatre.BackgroundRyan comes from a performing tradition: His father was a big band musician and… …   Wikipedia

  • Der Kissenmann — (Originaltitel The Pillowman ) ist ein Theaterstück des zeitgenössischen irischen Dramatikers Martin McDonagh. Zentrale Figur des Stücks ist der Schriftsteller Katurian K. Katurian, der auf einer Polizeistation in einem fiktiven totalitären… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Marc Warren — For other people named Marc Warren, see Marc Warren (disambiguation). Marc Warren Born 20 March 1967 (1967 03 20) (age 44) Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Occupation Actor Years active …   Wikipedia

  • Billy Crudup — Infobox actor name = Billy Crudup imagesize = 150px birthname = William Gaither Crudup birthdate = birth date and age|1968|7|8 birthplace = Manhasset, New York, U.S. spouse = tonyawards = Best Featured Actor in a Play 2007 The Coast of Utopia… …   Wikipedia

  • David Tennant — This article is about the Scottish actor. For the Cape Colony politician, see David Tennant (Cape politician). David Tennant David Tennant at Comic Con 2009. Born David John …   Wikipedia

  • Lee Ingleby — Infobox actor name = Lee Ingleby caption = birthdate = Birth date and age|1976|1|28|mf=y birthplace = Burnley, Lancashire, EnglandLee Ingleby (born 28 January 1976) is a British film, television, and stage actor.Ingleby was born in Burnley,… …   Wikipedia

  • Ondřej Vetchý — (born 16 May 1962) is a Czech actor. He was born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia. He is currently employed at The Drama Club (DC) in Prague. Notable performances 2005 – Katurian in The Pillowman, DC 2004 – Carluccio in The Businessman from Smyrna by… …   Wikipedia

  • Richard Holmes (actor) — Infobox Actor name = Richard Holmes imagesize = caption = Rick Holmes from Spamalot cast page birthname = Richard Holmes birthdate = birth date and age|1963|3|16 birthplace = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. deathdate = deathplace = othername =… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”