tragicomedy
noun
tragi·com·e·dy
ˌtra-ji-ˈkä-mə-dē 
: a drama or a situation blending tragic and comic elements
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The play is a tragicomedy about a man's search for love.
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The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
Her writing radiates a cosmic empathy that coexists, sometimes on the same page, with a strain of intolerance blind to life’s tragicomedy.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
As previously reported by Variety, the film is an episodic dark tragicomedy about five individuals grappling with rejection and the desire for revenge.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
Her writing radiates a cosmic empathy that coexists, sometimes on the same page, with a strain of intolerance blind to life’s tragicomedy.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
As previously reported by Variety, the film is an episodic dark tragicomedy about five individuals grappling with rejection and the desire for revenge.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragicomedy. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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