| | | | Cruel and Unusual tells the story of comedian Keith Farnan’s journey from law school in Ireland to the Innocence Project in New York City; meeting with Sr.Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking fame, to a public defenders office in Georgia - where he wonders whether the Irish might just be the only people in the world who can stop the death penalty in America.
This hard-hitting and scabrously funny show makes a laughing stock of the stocks by ridiculing the system as seen through the eyes of an Irish comedian. It shows the Death Penalty in its true light - a barbaric, racist, politically motivated act of revenge that doesn’t achieve any of its so called aims, including deterring violent crime. And it’s just plain stupid.
“As close to a reincarnated pre-Black Books Dylan Moran as we’re likely to see nowadays….” The Scotsman
“Brilliant, thought-provoking and laugh out loud funny” Time Out
‘genuinely informative about death row, genuinely realistic about the possibility of change, and genuinely funny enough to receive several rounds of applause.” Three Weeks | | | | | |
