By Martin McDonagh
Whereas nonetheless in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has crammed homes in ny and London, been showered with the theatre world's such a lot prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences along with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his most recent drama, The Pillowman, is the viciously humorous and heavily hectic story of a author in an unnamed totalitarian nation who's interrogated concerning the grotesque content material of his brief tales and their similarities to a couple of child-murders happening in his town.
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You should’ve just gone outside. Open the door. SKIN It wasn’t me! I bet it was you. BENNY Me? You! You’re the only one I know who really guzzles that cheap wine. SKIN Well, open the door. BENNY You. You’re the one who did it. SKIN No. I’ll just sit here, then. BENNY God—this guy. I’ll do it, then. Hey, Skin? How much did they give you for this job? SKIN Why? BENNY I was just wonder—whew! Boy, it’s cold out there. SKIN Then shut it. The Body Guards 45 BENNY Don’t get too bossy, hey. I’m doing you a favor, airing you and that guy out.
I guess, that’s how you and me are supposed to work things out. But when it comes down to it, Mona, even though you’re an Indian, you’ve always been a good friend to me. Oh—I see you’re making a new quilt. MONA No, I just finished it. I’m getting ready to take it over to the community hall. My niece is coming to pick me up in an hour or so. LUANNE Really? Who is this one for? MONA You don’t know her. No one really did. 32 William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. LUANNE Someone local? MONA Yes. Cheryl Horse.
I gave you the last one a long time ago, and you didn’t even know it. We’ve both grown old and pitiful, but pitiful not because we are old—pitiful that we’ve been here for so long and still don’t know anything about one another. And that makes me feel sad. She gets up and wraps her shawl around LuAnne. 42 William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. LUANNE Mona, can we ever be friends? I feel so empty and cold. MONA Warm yourself, LuAnne. At least it could be a start. Blackout. The Body Guards A P L AY I N O N E A C T Characters BENNY: a man in his late forties.