Red Noses
By Peter Barnes
Produced by the Washington Shakespeare Company
Directed by Jay Hardee and John Geoffrion
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Red Noses is a deadly earnest meditation on the redemptive power of laughter, a soggy, self-sabotaging pudding of a play not advanced by the Washington Shakespeare Company’s strident production of it. Imagine the work of the great George Carlin














