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Durang, Christopher was born on January 2, 1949 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of Francis Ferdinand and Patricia Durang.
( Comedy Christopher Durang Chacrters: 4 male, 2 female...)
Comedy Christopher Durang Chacrters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set (Set may be simply suggested.) Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudence and Prudence doesn't know what to make of her unpredictable new boyfriend. They do learn to live beyond therapy in this delightful Off Broadway hit that moved successfully to Broadway. "Offers the best therapy of all: guaranteed laughter." Time. "Filled with off beat laugh lines, wry observations on the contemporary urban psyche and situations that range from farcical to absurd." Women's Wear Daily.
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( Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sist...)
Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, returns to the scene of his prime with two raucous new plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In Miss Witherspoonnamed one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by both Time and NewsdayVeronica, a recent suicide whose cantankerous attitude has not improved in the afterlife, discovers that the one thing worse than the world she left behind is having to go back for seconds. Ordered to cleanse her brown tweedy aura,” Veronica resists being reincarnated (as a trailer-trash teen or an overexcited Golden Retriever), only to find that she may be mankind’s last, best hope for survival. In Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, a sassy ghost once again attempts to shake Scrooge from his holiday humbug, but the whole family-friendly affair is deliciously derailed by Mrs. Cratchit’s drunken insistence on stepping out of her miserable, treacly role. Morals are subverted, starving yet plucky children sing carols, and somebody’s goose is cooked as Durang lovingly skewers A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, and many more to create a brand-new, cracked Christmas classic.
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( Laughing wild amid severest woe” perfectly describes t...)
Laughing wild amid severest woe” perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang’s Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his personality workshop,” they run the gamut of everyday life’s small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Laughing Wild Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 1996/06/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 96158360
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Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of family life’s uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved by miscarriages, undermined by their families, separated by alcoholism, assaulted by disease, and mystified by their priest, Bette and Boo, in their bewildered attempts to provide a semblance of hearth and home, are presented with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play, and places Christopher Durang squarely in the forefront of American dramatists.
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Durang, Christopher was born on January 2, 1949 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of Francis Ferdinand and Patricia Durang.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1971; Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, 1974.
( Laughing wild amid severest woe” perfectly describes t...)
( Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sist...)
( Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly...)
(The Idiots Karamazov was first presented by the Yale Repe...)
( Comedy Christopher Durang Chacrters: 4 male, 2 female...)
(Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang. Dramatis...)
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(Durang's hilarious comedy.)
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