The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre by Eric Weitz
By Eric Weitz
The assortment attracts on quite a lot of views and voices together with critics, playwrights, administrators and performers.
the result's a chain of attention-grabbing and provocative debates in regards to the myriad capabilities of comedy in modern Irish theatre'.
'As Stan Laurel stated, "it takes simply an onion to cry. Peel it and weep. Comedy is harder". Anna McMullan
These essays take heed to the facility of laughter. They listen the cruel center of Irish theatre – demanding and depraved and funny’. Frank McGuinness
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