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Hand To God Explores Man’s Baser Nature With Pitch Black Comedy — And Puppets
Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent play at GableStage is a pitch black comedy about using the fiction of religion to rationalize and excuse the baser natural instincts of Mankind.
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Tagged Casey Sacco, GableStage, Hand To God, Joseph Adler, Kristian Bikic, Margery Lowe, Robert Askins, Stephen G. Anthony, Wesley Slade
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Report From New York: Inky Comedy Hand To God Is Riveting, Riotous And Deeply Unnerving
“Dark comedy” usually refers to a blithely cynical or whistling-past-the-graveyard attitude, but in the hilarious and unnerving Hand To God the darkness is pure visceral evil.
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