Before seeing The Lieutenant of Inishmore in 2006, I never expected to see a character in a Broadway play get shot in the head. Gunfire in plays generally happens offstage. Even when the shooting occurs in view of the audience, the sound effect is what gets our attention as the actor collapses, hit by an imaginary bullet. A pistol pointed at someone’s head is an empty threat (...)
Stage
Misfire
‘A Behanding in Spokane’
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