Even though it's widely considered to be funny, numerous dramatic events occur in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1979 play
Crimes of the Heart, which has just been shipped to the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theater, in what turns out to be a production (from the 2007 Williamstown Theatre Festival) that isn't so much acted than overacted. There's a possibly fatal shooting, at least one suicide by hanging as well as a hanged cat, a debilitating stroke, an illicit sexual liaison caught in a private detective's skulking camera, a leg crushed and permanently impaired, paint eaten by a couple of children, wholesale fraud and forgery -- not to mention that the entire population of Hazelhurst, M[...]