Mad Horse Theatre Company is a resident, professional theatre ensemble. Our mission is to produce plays which compassionately examine and illuminate the enduring aspects of the human experience. Our work focuses on areas of social concern, personal transformation and the building of lasting community relationships.

    

 
 

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January 1, 2008 (Portland, Maine) Mad Horse Theatre Company continues its 22nd season with The Pillowman, a harrowing thriller by Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh whose other plays include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Cripple of Inishman and The Lonesome West.

In an unnamed totalitarian state a writer is arrested and interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre incidents occurring in his town. Part Brothers Grimm, part Franz Kafka yet wholly original The Pillowman is a viciously funny, seriously disturbing mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

 

 

“The Pillowman is the kind of play that Mad Horse is all about.” said director Andrew Sokoloff. “It’s imaginative, theatrical, disturbing and incredibly funny. It stretches the boundaries of what theater can do yet would never work as a film. On a deeper level the play asks questions about art, imagination, love, freedom, and challenges our beliefs about what is a “good” life.  And the writing is just extraordinary, the wordplay is dizzying. McDonagh is a master of building suspense, building an intense sense of danger and menace and adding to it with humor. The, for lack of a better term, “jokes” don’t dispel the tension they heighten it. The Pillowman is an incredible experience.”

The Pillowman contains adult language, disturbing images and scenes of violence and is NOT intended for children. Seriously, We are not kidding.

 

The cast of The Pillowman features Mad Horse company members Craig Bowden, Peter Brown, David Currier and Lisa Muller-Jones and guest artists Brent Askari, Veronica Druchniak and J.D. Merritt, directed by Andrew Sokoloff.

The design team for The Pillowman includes company member Christine Louise Marshall (costumes,) and guest artists Amber Callaghan (set), Matt Cast (sound) and Joan Sand (lights.)

The Pillowman will be presented at the Portland Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theater. Previews are at the Portland Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theater on Thursday February 7th and Friday, February 8th. The show opens at the Portland Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theater on Saturday, February 9th and closes on Sunday, February 24th.

 

Performance schedule:

Portland Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theater

(February 7th through February 24th):

Thursdays:      7:30pm

Fridays:        8:00pm

Saturdays:      8:00pm 

Sundays         7:00pm

 

Our regular ticket price is $18.00.

(See below for discounted nights)

This season, as a “Thank You!” to all those people who’ve loved Mad Horse…

ALL PERFORMANCES OPENING WEEKEND February 7th -Febrauary 10th. are “Pay What You Can”!

Buy One Get One Free: Th. 2/14 and Th. 2/21

“Pay What You Can”: Sun. 2/24

Seating limited

Locations:

Portland Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theater

25A Forest Avenue, Second Floor, Portland ME

 

Call 730-2389 for information and reservations.

Mad Horse Theatre (Tickets & Reservations): 207-730-2389

Or by email at madhorsetheatre@gmail.com