‘A Behanding In Spokane’ Opens

Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Zoe Kazan and Anthony Mackie from the cast of ‘A Behanding in Spokane’ attend the opening night after party in New York Thursday. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

DFO: I should have gone to colleague Jim Kershner rather than Googling this play to find out why Spokane is included in the title. Sez Jim Sunday: ” An interview with playwright McDonagh in Variety on Feb. 19 indicated that the play is not necessarily set in Spokane. “The show is set in a grungy hotel in small-town America, exact location unspecified,” wrote Gordon Cox in the show business trade magazine. “As for Spokane, the site of the titular dismemberment, the Anglo-Irish writer (McDonagh) has only passed through it while asleep on a train. ‘I always liked the word,’ he says. ‘That K in the middle is really nice.’ ” Jim’s column here

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