On Theatrical Terror: “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” and “The Thin Place”
7 min readJan 17, 2020
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Works of drama have been traditionally classified into comedies or tragedies, (or if you are being generous, tragicomedies). Ever since the Ancient Greeks this dramaturgical framework has been the main way that audiences, writers, performers, scholars, and critics alike have understood theatre. The main basis behind this genre binary is the affect that each produces…