Golden Child

Author: David Henry Hwang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216827
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
THE STORY: In the winter of 1918, progressive Chinese landowner Eng Tieng-Bin's interest in Westernization and Christianity sets off a power struggle among his three wives, which will determine the future of his daughter, Ahn, Tieng-Bin's favorite,

Laughing Wild

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822215288
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
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

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822228637
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie-star sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike. Old resentments flare up, eventually leading to threats to sell the house. Also on the scene are sassy maid Cassandra, who can predict the future, and a lovely young aspiring actress named Nina, whose prettiness somewhat worries the imperious Masha.

The Marriage of Bette and Boo

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802188915
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
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

Christopher Durang Explains it All for You

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802132321
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
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

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822224013
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
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

Baby with the Bathwater

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200840
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
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

Durang/Durang

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214601
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
...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

Yankee Tavern

Author: Steven Dietz
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822223849
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
THE STORY: Just when you thought you'd heard every crazy 9/11 conspiracy theory, a stranger walks into the Yankee Tavern. There, inside the walls of this crumbling New York tavern, a young couple finds themselves caught up in what might be the bigg

Betty's Summer Vacation

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217664
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
THE STORY: Betty is looking forward to her summer share at the ocean. But Trudy, whom she knows only slightly, chatters incessantly; and then there are the other housemates--sexy lout Buck, who's pathologically on the make with women all the time, a