Hyperbole can be dangerous, but it’s hard to think of a more laugh-inducing scene that we’ve seen on the DC stage this season than Kate Eastwood Norris’s exchange with, well, herself, during Woolly Mammoth Theater’s uproarious production of She Stoops to Comedy.

Kate is playing two lesbian lovers, Kay Fien and Jayne Summerhouse. The wonderfully self-aware She Stoops is more than conscious of the fact that the actress has been on double duty, and keeps hinting to us that she will be taxed with a scene between the pair of characters, whom up until this point have conveniently always been in different rooms. The deft physical comedian flips quickly between characters, bringing a more and more frenetic energy to the stage as the pair tosses increasingly pointed insults at each other, to the audience’s delight.

Norris is just one member of a more than able cast that director Howard Shalwitz has assembled for this hysterical piece of writing. She Stoops is, if you can keep up, a play within a play within a play. It takes us inside the head of a playwright (Michael Russotto) concocting a humorous take on a production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Alexandra Page (also Russotto, who relies on voice and gesture rather than drag to switch genders) and her lover Alison Rose (Gia Mora) are on the outs, but Page gets the bright idea to pose as a man in order to obtain the role of Orlando in the production of As You Like It in which Alison has just been cast.