irreverent

“He loved giving people a little joy in their day,” Sanchini said, remembering Landau’s irreverent family Christmas cards.

“The lyrics were just very conversational. It was witty; it was self-aware; it was irreverent.”

But while the bloody rites of the original Euripides are at the heart of the tale, this version is so relentlessly digressive and irreverent that it plays more like parody than tragedy.

That crack - sharp, irreverent, wickedly funny - is the perfect way into the Booker Prize-winning author and activist's new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me.

It’s been a long day of press for “The Roses,” the irreverent and occasionally unhinged black comedy she filmed with Benedict Cumberbatch last year, and she can’t sit up straight.