Disturbing, Dazzling Vernon ; Shooting Satire Comes to Stage Weeks After Virginia Tragedy

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FIRST NIGHT Vernon God Little Young Vic ..

What cruel, but commercially valuable timing Tanya Ronder's adaptation of D B C Pierre's terrifying, black comedy novel enjoys! The award-winning Vernon God Little not only shows how Pierre's scape-goated, eponymous hero is driven to death row by gross miscarriages of justice, after his best friend, Jesus, has shot dead 16 of their teenage classmates in a Texas school. It also comes to the stage just weeks after the comparable, real life murders on a university campus in Virginia, where another youngster ran fatallyamok. Pierre's fiction and Ronder's adaptation, as the remorseless hustle of Rufus Norris's powerful production kept on reminding me, proves even more shocking than Virginia's awful reality.

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Disturbing, Dazzling Vernon ; Shooting Satire Comes to Stage Weeks After Virginia Tragedy

I kept giving in to shudders of amusement and laughter at this gross but believable picture of the disunited states of America. It will touch ...

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