Remember Shel Silverstein? Where the Sidewalk Ends? The Giving Tree? Yeah, good stuff from your childhood. Martyr-complex trees and funny poems are great and all, but what I really like is dark humor about dead ponies. And Shel delivers.
He has some great short plays, but The Best Daddy is, without a doubt, the most hysterical thing ever.
Catch the American Repertory Theater's production of Seriously Funny: an evening of short works by David Mamet, Harold Pinter, and Shel Silverstein to see it live
Seriously, guys. Dead ponies.
I love you so much, Shel Silverstein.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Children's Writers Have Sick Senses of Humor...Hurray!
Posted by annie at 11:42 AM
Labels: humor, imaginary friends, literature, theater
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Don't forget Shel did LOTS of cartoons for Playboy back in the day also.
PS - the "word verification" password for this comment is "prose"
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