Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: Six Plays - Brossura

Durang, Christopher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802132324 ISBN 13: 9780802132321

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 1994

Riassunto

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

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Product 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802132324
• ISBN 13: 9780802132321
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile