The Pillowman is a dark show about an author named Katurian Katurian who writes stories about children getting maimed. He is imprisoned because his mentally challenged brother has been reading them and acting them out without his knowledge. The show brings up an interesting moral dilemma: should a story be banned if it prompts a reader to commit violence? The lighting worlds for this show included an interrogation room, a prison cell, and 2 death sequences. Katurian’s inner struggle and fight to keep his writings are shown in the relationship between the grimy green-fluorescent feeling light of the interrogation room and the warmer, sodium-vapour flavor of his brother Michal’s cell. When Katurian tenderly tells stories to his not-all-there brother, the atmosphere shifts to an almost pleasant isolation of the two characters, subtly indicating that the story took them away from the awful reality of their plight. Lighting supported the death of Michal, the brother, by fading to black as he was smothered. In the case of Katurian, the whole world fades down into a gunshot blast. Brody, the director, used an all female cast to demonstrate the cruelty in a surprising way, but also to let the audience be more perceptive of the humor. The show was staged in thrust.