The term “morality play” is a modern invention. It was coined by modern academics as a way to define a series of plays that ...

It was a front-page outrage relegated with a shrug to the local pages — just another unsettling black-on-black crime that doesn’t fit the script of our preferred racial morality plays.

Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual ...