A monologue in a play by this author tells of a spider kept out of Heaven in case he scared children. In that play by this author, Charles Dickens hosts a guest who calls him “Charles Darwin” and returns home to find two time-traveling Belgians who were shot with a machine gun hidden in a “haunted concertina.” This author created a character who writes a story about a girl who thinks she is Jesus’s second coming being buried alive, and another about a girl who kills her father by putting razor blades in his apples. A pygmy woman is forced to write stories for Hans Christian Andersen in this playwright’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter. In a play by this author, detectives Ariel and Tupolski question Katurian, whose stories mirror real-life child murders. For 10 points, what Irish author of The Pillowman wrote and directed the film In Bruges ■END■
ANSWER: Martin McDonagh (“mac-DON-uh”) [or Martin Faranan McDonagh]
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