The pillow man was made of pillows. even its teeth and fingers were made of tiny pillows. It had two round buttons for eyes and a huge wide smile.

The pillowman had a very sad job. He could travel thru time and thus he would often go to the children with a bleak and sad future ahead of them and convince them to commit suicide. He did this so as to save them the trouble of having to endure a terrible life and have to end w suicide anyway.

Since children are not known to commit sucide, the pillowman had to teach them to make the sucide look accidental. Like crossing a busy road, eating too many candy like pills etc.

There was this particular day when he tried to convince this little gal to kill herself. But she was very happy and would not listen to him. SO he left her alone. But that night, there was a knock on her door and it was the man. the man came to her room every night her mum was out. This continued until the gal grew up into a sad adult. When the grown up gal was trying to stick her head in the oven, she asked the pillowman why he din try harder to convince her when she was young. He replied, ” You were too happy!”

So anyway the pillowman grew tired of his sad sad job.And he was sitting one day by the river when he heard a little boy saying bye to his mum. The little boy was a little pillowman. Little pillowman sat with the big pillowman and listened to his life. He was a good boy who wanted to help. thus he doused himself with kerosene and set himself to fire. As he burned, the big pillowman slowly faded away as well.

One of the stories which stuck from the play….