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Storytelling In Zoetic’s Pillowman Filled With Chills, Horror And Laughter

Zoetic Stage’s The Pillowman lives up to this masterpiece’s amalgam of a terrifying nightmare and black comedy. It is built around a half-dozen disparate themes so fused together that it is impossible to say what, if any, overarching theme exists. And as horror-laden stories intensify, the audience is within seconds alternately chilled — and chuckling with laughter. And back again.

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It’s A Hard-Knock Life Between The Laughs In Inishmaan

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ team finds the special vibe of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy set in an unforgiving climate of the heart in The Cripple of Inishmaan.

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McDonagh’s Signature Drama And Humor Meld In Dramaworks’ Upcoming Cripple Of Inishmaan

To avoid spoiling the specific emotional U-turns, all that veteran theatergoers need to know about The Cripple of Inishmaan opening at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month is that it’s a classic exemplar of the Martin McDonagh oeuvre that alternates raucous raunchy wit and heart-searing tragedy, sometimes punctuated with bloody violence.

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