Eclipse Theatre's all-Durang seasons finishes strong with a brutal black comedy about post-9/11 paranoia.
Christopher Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them is the kind of exquisite, biting satire that below-average comedians think they have created when audiences find them offensive. Not for the faint of heart, this outstanding version of Durang's play (the last in Eclipse's all-Durang season), directed by Steve Scott, is set in a post-9/11 world caught in the grips of paranoid xenophobia, where the characters wonder if their Middle Eastern neighbors are terrorists—or just angry about injustice like the average Brown person.…
Eclipse Theatre's all-Durang seasons finishes strong with a brutal black comedy about post-9/11 paranoia.
Christopher Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them is the kind of exquisite, biting satire that below-average comedians think they have created when audiences find them offensive. Not for the faint of heart, this outstanding version of Durang's play (the last in Eclipse's all-Durang season), directed by Steve Scott, is set in a post-9/11 world caught in the grips of paranoid xenophobia, where the characters wonder if their Middle Eastern neighbors are terrorists—or just angry about injustice like the average Brown person.…