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Is it just me, or is comedy even better when it's done with a Cockney accent?

Russian literature has a bit of a bad rap. Well, perhaps not bad... nobody begrudges Tolstoy his place amongst the masters. But it certainly has a depressing rap. With War and Peace and Anna Karenina setting the standard for what we consider the Russian canon, nobody thinks to turn to the Russians for laughs.

Tap dancing! Martial arts! Fire swallowing! S&M!

When I was younger, I wanted to study abroad in Ireland because I wanted to pick up the accent. That dream was never to be, but my love for the Irish accent lives on. And so that, combined with my affinity for the work of Martin McDonagh, led me straight into the arms of Lantern Theater Company's new production of McDonagh's , directed by David O'Connor.

It's been nearly a week since I went to see the Arden's production of . And yet I haven't reviewed it until just now. This is for a couple of reasons: (1) I've been insanely busy; (2) I left the program at a friend's, and still don't have it back, so I can't cite actors by name, and would have liked to, so I was hoping that I'd get that program back before I wrote this (but I just found the cast list on the Arden's website, so we're all good); (3) I may have forgotten a little; (4) something happened during the second intermission that made me so angry that I wanted to calm down to prevent this from becoming a sequel to last week's Monday Manners. So let me just say, very quickly, that if you want to leave a play at intermission because you're not enjoying it, that's fine. But if you're going to stand in the aisle, loudly trying to persuade your friends that the play sucks and that they should skip the end and go drinking with you, it's not.