with everything the play addresses, it just made sense that
the play is written as such. Moreover, to deliver mental health issues and life events that we each
face every day would’ve been
sad and I feared it wouldn’t attract audiences and if it did, it’d
leave a bitter taste of reality. So I
decided to break up the monotony by adding some elements
of comedy and instead show
that even in some of the worst
circumstances and life events,
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we can find laughter. Much like
when many of us say, “I had to
laugh to keep from crying,” it’s
almost essential that we sometimes chuckle and laugh an issue
off of our shoulders.
It’s not the easiest thing to do
though, write a comedy, dark or
otherwise, about such issues and
calamities and surround them
with elements set to bring forth
laughter. Well, the act of writing isn’t difficult, but digesting
the darkness while writing about
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