Articles Tagged With: dark comedy

God of Carnage at Cockpit in Court 📷 Trent Haines-Hopper/realgoodphotos.com

God of Carnage at Cockpit in Court

Are you eccentric enough to believe in the soothing power of culture? Theatre is meant to be culture. Dark comedies are meant to be funny. And Yasmina Reza’s darkish-comedy God of Carnage (as translated by Christopher Hampton) certainly has its moments in the upstairs cabaret theatre space of Cockpit in Court, the first of two non-musicals included in the 2026 summer season. Directed by Gabriel Lewin, this edgy dark deviance divulges into the territory of “what happens when adults behave like children and fail to act like th grown-ups that they’re pretending to be?”

I’ve seen shows in the cabaret theatre space of Cockpit in Court since 2012,

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Tartuffe at Silver Spring Stage

author: Leonard Taube

Few plays in world history are mired in as much controversy as the one being currently produced by Silver Spring Stage (Silver Spring, MD).  In 1664 France, a delightfully funny yet extremely controversial three-act play by French playwright Moliere was performed titled Tartuffe.  While received well by the public, it immediately sparked conflict amongst certain groups who did not take too well to the portrayal of someone who is outwardly pious but fundamentally deceitful.

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