Now, with "Serious Money," she has done a savagely funny play about the glitterball world of high finance and greed.

In the hands of more adroit film makers, "The Game" might have been a savagely funny satire of politics, racism and the Manhattan game of dog-eat-dog.

Set in a wonderfully imagined dystopic America, it's very bleak but also savagely funny, always brilliant, and ultimately heartbreaking.

A savagely funny play that hinges on the subtle aggression and unacknowledged dependencies of male friendship - and the angst and irritation created for those on the sidelines.

Like so much of what he said, wrote and sang, it was quotable, savagely funny and true.

In between these deadpan, savagely funny impersonations, Mr. Shearer offered video performance pieces and "found art" on five television monitors.

"A Very Vicki Christmas," set two years earlier than the valentine extravaganza, is a savagely funny takeoff of familial television gatherings at holiday time.

The Playboy of the Western World is JM Synge's savagely funny play, first produced in 1907.

The other four plays are variously slyly or savagely funny, but in "Riders" and "Deirdre" a dark fatalism reigns.