Among dramatic offerings, it has produced a pair of savage comedies by Nicky Silver, "Pterodactyls" and "Raised in Captivity."

In "Sincerity Forever," Mac Wellman's savage comedy about everyday lunacies in America, two adolescent girls in a dirt-poor Southern town calmly accept the order of the universe.

And much of the play's savage comedy arises from the wild disconnect between talk and action.

Outbursts of his savage comedy during his conjuring shows have sometimes alienated him from the more conservative magic community.

In that savage comedy about, well, bourgeois hypocrisy, the bleeding hearts of do-gooding liberals in urban America were dissected with a scalpel-sharp wit that was easier to admire than truly enjoy.

The filming of a crucifixion for television and selling advertising for it is the stuff of savage comedy.

This disappointment is unexpected, because "Two Shakespearean Actors" is poised to pick up where the author's savage previous comedy, "Some Americans Abroad," left off.

The result is an intelligent, low-key production of a savage comedy, one that unintentionally illuminates the play's flaws.

It was a performance that Walter Kerr, the theater critic for The New York Times, said exemplified Ms. Freeman's talent for subtle, savage comedy.

Devotion doesn't get much sicker than that shown by the title character of "The Fall Guy," a savage comedy by the Japanese playwright Tsuka Kohei.