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good as Goldblum
For The Pillowman's Jeff Goldblum, living a life of creativity is a noble pursuit
by Mervyn Rothstein
"It's very disturbing. And it's very powerful. It's violent. It's like the grimmest of the Grimm fairy tales."
Jeff Goldblum is talking about The Pillowman, the new drama by the British playwright Martin McDonagh--whose Beauty Queen of Leenane won four Tony Awards in 1998--in which he is starring at the Booth Theatre.
In The Pillowman, which won the Olivier Award last season in London as best play, a writer in a totalitarian state is arrested and interrogated because of the grisly content of his

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short stories, which closely resemble the recent murders of several children in his town. McDonagh is known for the rather gruesome violence in his plays--sometimes graphic and sometimes darkly humorous--and The Pillowman is no exception.
"I think it's very complicated," Goldblum says about the play and its violence. "It's a violent world." Lately, he has been listening to the words of Joseph Campbell, who wrote about mythology and religion. "And Campbell said that the essence of divinity is sometimes nuttily sweet and lovely and ambrosial and miraculously beautiful--but that sometimes it is horrifically, powerfully devastating and violent."
In the play, directed by John Crowley, Goldblum portrays Tupolski, one of the police interrogators. His co-stars are Billy Crudup, who is the writer; Zeljko Ivanek, the second interrogator; and Michael Stuhlbarg, the writer's brother.
Tupolski, Goldblum says, "is very much part of the play's totalitarian political landscape and its justice system. He has strong feelings about hurting children, because he has lost his own child. But eventually, the writer opens him up to the power of literature and art."
That power is ultimately, Goldblum says, part of what the play is about. And Goldblum
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director John Crowley, playwright Martin McDonagh and The Pillowman cast-Jeff Goldblum, Zeljko Ivanek, Billy Crudup and Micheal Stuhlbarg

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