After seeing this play, I could hardly wait to rush home and google Tragicomedy. This 1956 play in three acts by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt presents some pretty absurd ideas, but getting sucked into how irrational ideas eventually become rationalized during the course of a story like this is chilling, but uncomfortably familiar at the same time.As the play begins, the town of Güllen is gathered at …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:29AM on June 17, 2011