‘General Admission’: Jasmine-JC comedy skewers culture of gossip in its many forms

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It’s easy to see how quickly a harmless message can take on a malicious meaning, particularly in a social media-enslaved world replete with fake news and empowered trolls.

In Jeffrey Hidalgo’s subversive black comedy-cum-social drama “General Admission,” which launches its monthlong run on iWantTFC beginning Friday (till May 7), a woman’s monthly period becomes the source of an outbreak of media frenzy that doesn’t just put a loving young couple’s relationship through the wringer, but also opens a Pandora’s box of repugnant secrets, hidden passions and rambunctious lies.

Adapted by screenwriter Dustin Celestino from “MediaEx Presents: Savages,” a short story published…

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