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Loading... Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: Six Plays (edition 1990)by Christopher Durang
Work InformationChristopher Durang explains it all for you : six plays by Christopher Durang
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Classic plays by a master of oddball black comedy. This collection includes two of the best: the Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You. Durang has a way of twisting words and situations into pretzels that seems at first to be just weird, and then when you look at it closer, you see what he's done. He's turned reality on its head and looked at it upside down. His characters are rarely likeable, the situations they get themselves into are the most outrageously ridiculous situations you could imagine, but still his plays work on an intellectual and emotional level. Obviously this sort of comedy isn't for everyone, and as I imagine most of the people I know encountering Durang for the first time, I can't fathom many of them enjoying him, but there is a certain something in the way he paints the world that seems like he's the verbal equivalent of Dali. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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' 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 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 No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)812.54Literature English (North America) American drama 20th CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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