She was cautious not to to ascribe motives to either the shooting of Scott or the massacre at the Emanuel church, but said she was not surprised tragedies with such obvious racial dimensions should befall her city.
In " 'Our Town': Some Suggestions for the Director," Wilder writes, "It is important to maintain a continual dryness of tone, — the New England understatement of sentiment, of surprise, of tragedy".
They were bawdy and hard-hewn and never surprised when tragedy befell their lives.
In truth, though, no one should be surprised that tragedies like this are happening every day across America: Transportation officials and local planners routinely create the very conditions that underlie these "accidents" and allow them to persist.
Few of her fans could have been surprised by this tragedy.
Rhea Seehorn is here for all the upcoming surprises, comedy and tragedy.
It should surprise no one that tragedy does not, in this case, ennoble.
But Schnitzler was writing about a deeply stratified society - fin de siecle Vienna - in which aristocrats and officers play-acted their way through life and were surprised when they provoked tragedy: a classic case is Schnitzler's sweet young girl from the suburbs who here becomes a hip, 17-year-old coke-sniffing model who has drugged sex with her politician-lover.
But students of the country's product-safety procedures say the only surprise is that such a tragedy didn't happen sooner.
Each tragedy continues to surprise and disturb us, even as we learn to expect that the victim will be all right in the morning.
The world of Little Shop begins with a flash (the lighting design is equal parts apocalyptic thunderstorm and if a soap opera crossed signals with a rock show) and a surprise narrator cameo, before this tragedy's Greek chorus (Chloe Zuel, Angelique Cassimatis and Josie Lane) introduce us to the show, the neighbourhood and the defiance of living proudly when the world thinks you're a joke.
