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Hangmen–dark and funny in turn
“I cannot believe I am laughing at something that two minutes earlier was so dark.”
Director Sharon Shanks describes Centre Stage’s upcoming production ‘Hangmen’ as beautifully written “about such a dark or intense subject, but then the playwright puts intense comedy into it as well.”
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