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Summary: Two Good Plays
Review: I would recommend this play for anyone who likes Christopher Durang. Both plays are good for any project that you would need a comedic play and/or playwrite. A must have for any drama or modern studies student.
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Summary: durang's most real play...
Review: LAUGING WILDE is the best play by Durang that I've read or seen. I usually find his plays sort of sad, with terrible bitterness at the heart of them, that, even though they're usually terribly funny, you sort of leave feeling bad that Durang is so unhappy. I've appeared as George in ACTORTS NIGHTMARE more than once, and, like most of his plays, they have these great lead ups to sort of really sad endings.LAUGING... on the other hand gives us two characters (two very eighties characters, based on their references to Reagan and the Meese Commition) who's feelings, though in a dated context, are so relevent now to how so many people feel about the world. The Woman's monolgue at the beginning is so wonderfully crazy and hysterical and sort of touching - this is a great peice for a great actress who understands levels and life - its so perfectly written. The Man's monologue is just so touchingly written, without being sappy, that it makes you really sit there and say - "yes! this is what I feel, too!"... at least I do. And bringing them together in the second act is so well done - and by the end... well, what do you know, Durang gives us an ending that has hope. No bitterness. Hope. I love it. Not the best play I've ever read, but really well done. BABY... has one of the funniest first acts of any play I know, but sort of winds up with that bitter Durang ending that always makes me feel bad for him. Despite this, he's one of the best absurdist playwrights today, its no wonder his plays are so popular.
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Summary: Mommy with the dishwater
Review: Right before I left for college, when I was in my combat boots, fishnet tights, and park ranger hat phase, I went with my mother to Cambridge, MA for the National High School Theater convention. (Our play, for which I was the bitter disgruntled light person, was so bad that even to mention it in the same paragraph with Christopher Durang is something of an insult.) Anyway, I'd read Baby With the Bathwater and seen Laughing Wild and at 16 I was convinced that they were the most brilliant, hysterical, heartbreaking pieces of theater ever in the whole of human history. (When I was 18 I stumbled upon Aristophanes and Euripides and THAT was all over, but hey, not everyone can be Aristophanes or Euripides after all.) Anyways, Durang, I mean, where else are you going to find Oedipal dreams about your father inside your baked potato? The man IS a genius. So, I was in Cambridge with my Mom and I saw that Baby With the Bathwater was playing at a local theater and convinced her that her life would remain eternally unfulfilled unless she (we) went to go see it. So off we went. And oh boy did it go. Like off the deep end. Baby With the Bathwater is basically Phillip Larkin's This Be The Verse (They "mess" you up your mum and dad. They do not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had and add some extra just for you...)extended to play length with a generous helping of the bizarre mixed in there. i.e. NOT A GOOD PLAY TO SEE WITH YOUR MOTHER, especially if your mother has a "bad mom" complex. So, she thought I'd dragged her to this to make some sort of devious comment on her parenting, while I was innocently and totally enthralled by the bizarre notion of not checking the sex of your baby becaue you don't want to invade it's privacy and the cool lighting. So, afterward she freaks out and we have to have this long ole' mother/daughter talk where she had to tell me how sucky a mom she thought she was and I had to reassure her that she didn't mess me up too bad and we ate clam chowder. Though no one got hit on the head with a tuna fihs can andwe never once talked about Sally Jesse Rafael's glasses, it was a perfect example of life mirroring art, or life mirroring Christopher Durang. Take your pick.
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Summary: Excellent for Student Presentations
Review: These 2 plays are full of excellent monologues and/or scenes that work well for acting presentations. They are full of modern humor.
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Summary: Hilarious , well written
Review: This play was one of the most un-inspired and un-inspiring pieces of garbage I have ever had the misfortune of stumbling across. Its non-sensical nature, which is obviously geared to amuse its audience in spite of utter confusion, only leads to disillusionment and mental nausea. Durang is a talentless imp who needs to be banned from his pen.
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Summary: Hilarious , well written
Review: Those of you looking for a good play look no further. Christopher Durangs Laughing Wild and Baby With the Bath Water are two of the most comical well written plays i have come across for just the fun of it.Laughing Wild left me in stitches i laughed so hard! If you are an actor looking for monologues or scenes to work with for comedy these two pieces are filled with great work and varieties of character to work with.
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