The Theatre Of Christopher Durang

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822214601
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Durang/Durang written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...eloquently dramatizes questions of responsibility, guilt and pathology...the complex moral issues are translated into challenging story theater, like a cubist portrait of grief...Homage must be paid, this grieving mother cries to the stars, and Medoff answe The mysteries of life, death and survival in the city, of friendships among women and relationships between the sexes are explored...in Jacquelyn Reingold's GIRL GONE...the playwright display[s] admirable talent and generate[s] plenty of interest, tension an

Author : Miriam Chirico
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474288936
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Christopher Durang written by Miriam Chirico and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage. From Durang's early success with the controversial Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (1974) to his recent Tony Award-winning play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2012), he has been an original theatrical voice in American theatre. Edith Oliver, long-time theatre critic for The New Yorker, described Durang as “one of the funniest men in the world.” Durang challenges traditional dramatic idioms with his irreverent comedies that are as shocking as they are prescient and compassionate. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of Durang's works and incorporates comedic theory to examine how laughter in performance subverts social conventions and hierarchies. Through a clear, detailed discussion of the plays, Miriam Chirico considers Durang's use of black comedy, satire, and parody to explode such topics as: western literature, religion, dysfunctional families, and American social malaise. Robert Combs and Jay Malarcher provide additional critical perspectives about Durang's works, detailing his use of alienation techniques and locating his place within the American parodic tradition. The book also includes a warm introduction by Durang's former student, Pulitzer Prize-winner, David Lindsay-Abaire. The Theatre of Christopher Durang, in demonstrating how Durang has shaped contemporary theatrical possibilities, offers a valuable guide for students of American drama and comedy.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203414
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Short Plays by Christopher Durang written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIVERSE. Centers on a week in the beleaguered life of Eleanor Mann, housewife and mother, who lives with her religious fanatic husband and three sons; the oldest a pimp and dope pusher; the middle son a flagrant

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802188923
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christopher Durang Explains It All for You written by Christopher Durang and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of dark comedies about terrible therapists, dysfunctional parents, and more, from a winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and three Obies. Known for his dark, absurd humor and social commentary, Christopher Durang explores the pain and confusion of everyday life—and makes audiences laugh uproariously at the results. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, the center of a storm of controversy for its satire of misplaced trust in religious authority, remains as powerful today as when it was originally produced. The excruciatingly funny The Nature and Purpose of the Universe asks whether Eleanor Mann’s Job-like suffering is really her fault, while Titanic takes us into the heart of children’s anger with their parents and parents’ manipulation of their children. In Beyond Therapy, two horrifyingly human therapists pursue their own needs at the expense of the most mismatched couple ever to meet through a personal ad. Also including ’Dentity Crisis and The Actor’s Nightmare, this collection demonstrates that laughter is the best surgery, slicing through prejudice and hypocrisy, cutting out dead beliefs and inflamed opinions. These black comedies, lit by lightning bolts of truth and humor, come from “one of the most explosively funny American dramatists” (Newsweek). Includes: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe ’Dentity Crisis Titanic The Actor’s Nightmare Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You Beyond Therapy

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Full-length Plays, 1975-1995 written by Christopher Durang and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1997 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains seven full-length plays written by Christopher Durang in the years between 1975 and 1995, each including an introduction by the award-winning playwright.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 : 9781880399897
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27 Short Plays written by Christopher Durang and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822214489
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM. Naomi, when visited by John and Johnna, her son and daughter-in-law, is alternately friendly and insulting. Johnna copes her best, but when John changes his clothes to look like Johnna, things start to unravel

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822215288
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laughing Wild written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the first section of the play, a Woman enters and embarks on an increasingly frenetic (and funny) recital of the perils and frustrations of daily life in urban America--waiting in line, rude taxi drivers, inane talk shows and the selfi

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194419
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them written by Christopher Durang and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] hilarious and disturbing new comedy about all-American violence” and other whip-smart political satires by the Tony Award-winning playwright (Ben Branley, The New York Times). Christopher Durang, who The New York Observer called “Jonathan Swift’s nicer, younger brother,” became one of America’s most beloved and acclaimed playwrights by marrying gonzo farce with incisive social critique. Now collected in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them and Other Political Plays are Durang’s most revealing satirical plays. Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them is the story of a young woman in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father’s hobby of butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Does her mother frequent the theater for mental escape, or is she just insane? Add in a minister who directs porno, and a ladylike operative whose underwear just won’t stay up, and this black comedy will make us laugh all the way to the waterboarding room. Also included in this volume are: Excerpts from Sex and Longing Cardinal O’Connor The Book of Leviticus Show Entertaining Mr. Helms The Doctor Will See You Now Under Duress: Words on Fire An Alter Boy Talks to God The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822200840
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby with the Bathwater written by Christopher Durang and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner