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 Christopher Durang is
a playwright whose plays have been
produced on and off- Broadway, around the country and abroad.
Keywords: satire, dark
comedy, parody, funny, absurdist. Other
key words: winter, spring, fall. Also
summer. More keywords: coffee, Yale
School of Drama, zippers, age, lapsed Catholic, hiccups.
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 Among
his plays: Beyond Therapy,
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, The Marriage of Bette and Boo,
Baby with the Bathwater, Laughing Wild, A History of the American Film, Betty’s
Summer Vacation, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge
He
has written 1,455 one act plays (or perhaps 40), including
The Actor’s
Nightmare,
For Whom the Southern Belle
Tolls,
Naomi in the Living
Room, and
‘dentity
Crisis.
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 Christopher
also acts and sings. He’s had small but fun parts in a number of
movies, and acted in some of his own plays. Some mornings he feels
grateful and bitter at the same time, which is a complicated feat.
Name
Dropping:
Sigourney Weaver, Wendy Wasserstein, Albert
Innaurato, Dianne Wiest, Jerry Zaks, Joan Allen, Elizabeth Franz, Pootie LaPunta, Klevin Kahn, Bertolt
Brecht, E. Katherine Kerr, Kristine Nielsen, Sabu, Swoosie Kurtz,
Dana Ivey, Chandra Bell, and Fidel Castro.
Final
keywords: cursor, satire, parody, glaucoma
drops, dog, dog food, bread, butter, cheese. |
