Word: humorizing
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...humorous first act might be unexpected from a play by Albee (best known for his misanthropic work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), but the humor is never without an edge. When A querulously issues contradictory demands, prompting her nurse to comically scramble in exasperation, audience members are uncomfortably aware that their laughter is derived from an old woman’s senility. The thin line between humor and pain that Women treads is on full display at the end of Act One, when A delivers an anecdote about her husband that veers from amusing to uncomfortable...
...second act, however, drops all pretenses of dark humor and becomes simply difficult to handle, as the truth behind A’s nostalgic ramblings during the first act becomes apparent. As the characters’ tongues become sharper (the second act largely consists of C asking the other two women to account for why they are so bitter), so do the themes— and the play subtly builds into a warning that one can never truly get beyond past mistakes, except in death...
...cultures and movements from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, and made a lovely juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The skits that ran in between acts, while partly existing to allow time to set up equipment behind the curtain, served an important purpose in themselves by using humor to showcase the experience of being young and Indian-American in the modern world...
...humor employed in the interacts, as well as the two-part skit “The Apprentice in Bombay,” a parody of Donald Trump’s famous (or infamous) television series, provided a fresh perspective on Indian and Indian-American culture, serving up insight as well as laughter. “The Apprentice in Bombay” pitted a team of Indians against a team of Indian-Americans in a battle for Trump’s affection, and jokes and jabs were served up equally against both teams, along with a number against Trump himself...
...dominates the culture and psyche of the modern South Asia. The juxtaposition of styles and influences made clear how important a period this is for the Subcontinent, as young generations with new styles and ways of thinking grow up in a world of ancient traditions and heritage. Approached with humor and solemnity, music and dance, the beautiful complexity was revealed in full, and the largely Caucasian audience couldn’t help but be awed at the vast depth of a region and history they probably, until now, knew little about...