FINDING THE JOKES IN A TRAGEDY.

FINDING THE JOKES IN A TRAGEDY. ‘TIS PITY AS A WHORE by John Ford is a dark Jacobean revenge tragedy. It features incest, a blinding and five murders. The last sentence of this wikipedia summary of the plot begins, “Following the massacre….” Alan Ayckbourn directed ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE and said he was “amazed at the number of genuine comic moments littered throughout this darkest of texts.”