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Tonight, Mother and Gina and I went to see Eddie Izzard in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.

Very black comedy. Depressing, but peppered with horrified laughter by the audience. Horrified laughing is always a fascinating experience.
Izzard was masterful. He's an incredible actor. He played the father of a severely spastic ten-year-old, whose tactic for coping was to constantly joke about the situation. And the jokes were funny, and Izzard is so damn funny, so you laughed, but the tragedy was always at the forefront of the experience.

And, as an apparently blossoming musical theatre geek (this was not a musical), I was excited to see Dana Ivey in the role of the mother-in-law, Dana Ivey having been nominated for a Tony for her work in Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

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