Anything more tasteful just wouldn't do justice to this flamboyant comic nightmare about real-estate development run amok in south Florida.

As before, the play is an explosive comic nightmare about an ingrown American family hiding a dark secret and arming itself against the encroachment of reality.

Now, Mr. Elliott finds himself in a comic nightmare, bending over backward to avoid being accused of a comedian's cardinal sin - lifting someone else's joke - and agreeing to a financial settlement with the robot's creator to head off potential litigation.

The Ostrovsky, for example, was a comic nightmare of frenzied duplicity played purposefully close to caricature.

This cheery comic nightmare about a suburban child who has suddenly been turned into Godzilla offers all sorts of offhanded advice about how to deal with a child in his "terrible 2's."

But some dreams, it appears, include comic nightmares.

This is the pertinent question posed (by a dwarf) in "Living in Oblivion," Tom DiCillo's 1995 comic nightmare about making independent films.

In this show eye and flesh are out of control, and their excesses generate a hideous, comic nightmare.

They sprawled around the fire, four improbably limber comic nightmares, their hands occupied with unimportant tasks, their minds wandering.