Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
“A whirligig fun house . . . Durang’s funniest play! . . . hilarious new comedy.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
“Hugely entertaining . . . few contemporary playwrights have proven as deft as Durang as mining both the absurdity and the dangers of human…
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“An endearingly meditative farce . . . It’s a pleasure to note that [Durang] hasn’t lost his screwball.” –Richard Corliss, Time
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“A remorselessly sad, achingly funny assault on the vanities, inanities, and insanities of family life . . . a new poignancy has entered his…
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“Gifted young playwright Christopher Durang is offering one of the best plays of the season with his brief, complex comedy on parenthood.” –Richard Christiansen,…
keep readingChristopher Durang Explains It All For You
“Durang uses his absurd humor to challenge the rigidity of some religious beliefs, as well as homophobia, methods of psychoanalysis, marriage, and parenthood… His…
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“With a style that incorporates Brechtian alienation and Alfred Jarry grotesquerie, the deliriously assaultive, brashly funny Vacation defines to perfection the lurid, scandal-starved past…
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