Sometimes you want to laugh at the absurdity of the many, many tragedies caused by too many crazy people killing innocent victims, as depicted in this satire. Yet, ADAM RICHTER’s one-minute play makes you wonder how our society has so much gun violence. It’s truly mind boggling. “A Day In The News”, in some form, is probably happening at kitchen tables more often than we care to admit.

Simple to stage or film, this piece is almost musical in the rhythmic, dare one say it?, bullet-like dialogue until it stops as suddenly as the heartbeat of a victim. Richter skewers with damning accuracy the deadly repetition of rolling news in the internet age where the terrifying and the blasé merge into one.

Much like the world of the play, which is the world we live in, A DAY IN THE NEWS hits its targets with a powerful BANG! Several in fact. Sharp, succinct, and quietly devastating.