Christopher Durang Explains it All for You

Christopher Durang Explains it All for You
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802132321

Few playwrights have explored as relentlessly as Christopher Durang the pain and confusion of everyday life--or made us laugh so 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' manipula-tion 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 dark comedies, lit by lightning bolts of truth and humor, are among the most illuminating in American drama, by "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

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You ; And, The Actor's Nightmare

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You ; And, The Actor's Nightmare
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1982
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822210351

THE STORIES: SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU. Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named Tho

Christopher Durang Explains It All for You

Christopher Durang Explains It All for You
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0802188923

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

Durang/Durang

Durang/Durang
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822214601

...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

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2011
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN: 9780822224013

THE STORY: Christopher Durang turns political humor upside down with this raucous and provocative satire about America's growing homeland insecurity. WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM tells the story of a young woman suddenly in crisis:

Baby with the Bathwater

Baby with the Bathwater
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1984
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780822200840

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

The Marriage of Bette and Boo

The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0802188915

A painfully funny, Obie Award-winning play about the tragedy and comedy of family life. 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 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 portrayed with a poignant compassion that enriches and enlarges the play, and makes clear why Christopher Durang has become one of the great names in American theater. “One of the most explosively funny American dramatists.”—Newsweek

Laughing Wild

Laughing Wild
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822215288

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

Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Prudence is a conservative and slightly mixed-up young woman who thinks Bruce is crazy. Bruce is a bi-sexual who lives with his male lover and is crazy about Prudence.

All in the Timing

All in the Timing
Author: David Ives
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0307772616

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud." At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue," "Seven Menus," "Mere Mortals," "English Made Simple," "A Singular Kinda Guy," "Speed-the-Play," "Ancient History," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread."