Adapted from a film by German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the play in some ways improves on its source.

In Scena’s take on the dark comedy from Martin McDonagh, you end up laughing at a lot of people who aren’t in on the joke.

Ian Blackwell Rogers, Rena Cherry Brown and Barry McEvoy in ‘Public Enemy’.Photo: Ian C. Armstrong Early in Kenneth Branagh’s career, the young phenom — already well established as an actor on the British stage and on the brink of being declared the heir apparent to Laurence Olivier as the premier cinematic interpreter of Shakespeare — tried his hand at playwriting. One of the two works that emerged during that period is this fascinating angle…