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From the first roar of applause from the audience, to the punch lines that claw into the flesh of gender stereotypes, to the pop-star outfits that remind us she’s a comedy queen of the jungle, the veteran headliner holds nothing back.

“So we thought, let’s explore it and the sliding scale of each person’s experience of getting to America. When he’s locked up, Mo overhears one of the other immigrants talking about his journey: ‘The mud slides, the snakes, the jungle, the cartel.

He is a cement mason whose drug and alcohol use eventually landed him in a tent in “The Jungle,” the infamous Seattle homeless encampment on the western slope of Beacon Hill above I-5.

Deep in the jungle, the roar of heavy machinery cuts through the cave’s gentle “drip, drip, drip.”

Loosely based on Henry James’ 1903 novella “The Beast in the Jungle,” “The Beast” encompasses three overlapping segments, all of them starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay.