Puppets
Martin McDonagh explains, “An attic in Copenhaggen in the late 1800s. Various beautifully crafted but peculiar marionettes hang across the dark wooden walls, or are strewn across the dirty floor; puppets such as tarantulas, crabs, a scarecrow, a woodsman, as well as more ordinary animals such as a kitten, seahorses, pigeons, hummingbirds, etc, are very colourful” ( Part 1, scene 1). The puppets are contributing symbols which allude to the sham actions in the attic. Martin McDonagh opens the play with emblems of puppetry to apprise the reader about the fake engagements which are alluded to in the title A Very Very Very Dark Matter.
Blackness
Martin McDonagh elucidates, “The fingers of a small black female hand appear in the circular hole, gently holding on to its edges for a couple of pendulum swings, then the eye of a very small black woman appears behind it ” (Part 1, scene 1). The occupier of the shadowy box is black. Her blackness constructs the subject matter of bigotry.
