Word: humors
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...Keening” is a document of modern life in Colombia, but not a histrionic one. It portrays both the mundane and the shocking, the joyful and the tragic. By doing so with restraint and humor, playwright Humberto Dorado has managed to create a play that stands above its politics...
...only actress continuously onstage for the entire hour and forty-five minutes of the production, Chibas is charged with conveying all the humor and grief of the play, and she does an admirable job of engaging the audience and creating interest in the life of the woman. She portrays the woman’s complexity of emotion without misstep, avoiding the temptation to overplay the intense aspects of the script...
...write about politics or oppression it’s not that hard, but for humor it’s a whole different game,” Dumas said...
...memoir, now in its 10th printing, has recently been translated into Persian. It is also one of the three finalists for the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor...
...despite the humor of the book—or perhaps because of it—Dumas said her writing is not appreciated...