"A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town……"

This disturbing play explores the psyche of both the interrogated and the interrogators; both time and place are unspecified, we could be in Stalinist Russia or Guantanamo Bay. As the action unfolds we see how memory and desire play tricks on us, and how we bury painful childhood memories deep within ourselves but no matter how hard, consciously or unconsciously, we try to run from our past it catches up with us and explodes into the present with sometimes horrifying consequences.

Martin MacDonagh is known for his uncompromising treatment of the human condition. He forces us to contemplate our lives and the way we live them, but he does this with compassion and with a humour which allows us to confront our own shortcomings and thus try to understand them.

"Warning: a viciously funny, seriously disturbing tale."