Dramaurge: A Behanding in Spokane
…A Behanding played well before a potentially critical younger crowd as well as the Boomers that filled out the audience. That’s something to laugh about and applaud.
…A Behanding played well before a potentially critical younger crowd as well as the Boomers that filled out the audience. That’s something to laugh about and applaud.
Go see this guilty pleasure. On one hand, there are a mountain of laughs, and on the other hand…oh wait…there is only one hand.
…the explosive bursts of humor, the macabre nature of the plot, and the terrific character-driven performances make Keegan Theatre’s production of A Behanding in Spokane one of the most memorable and entertaining plays of the season.
Playwright Martin McDonagh succeeds in writing, and the actors in Keegan Theatre’s cast succeed in delivering, wonderfully fluent and intelligently-written lines for the four characters in A Behanding in Spokane…
Of only one thing can you be certain: You’ll need both hands to applaud.
The Keegan Theatre presents A Behanding in Spokane, the hilarious dark comedy from award-winning Irish playwright, Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, The Lieutenant of Inishmore). It opens March 16, 2013, at the Church Street Theater in Washington, DC. Keegan company member Colin Smith directs. The title is just the starting point; take a man searching for
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