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Durang (Paperback): Christopher Durang Durang (Paperback)
Christopher Durang
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Adrift in Macao (Paperback, Samuel French Acting ed.): Christopher Durang Adrift in Macao (Paperback, Samuel French Acting ed.)
Christopher Durang; Peter Melnick
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Full Length, Musical / 4m, 3f /Unit Sets Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Music Set in 1952 in Macao, China, ADRIFT IN MACAO is a loving parody of film noir movies. Everyone that comes to Macao is waiting for something, and though none of them know exactly what that is, they hang around to find out. The characters include your film noir standards, like Laureena, the curvacious blonde, who luckily bumps into Rick Shaw, the cynical surf and turf casino owner her first night in town. She ends up getting a job singing in his night club - perhaps for no reason other than the fact that she looks great in a slinky dress. And don't forget about Mitch, the American who has just been framed for murder by the mysterious villain McGuffin. With songs and quips, puns and farcical shenanigans, this musical parody is bound to please audiences of all ages. "And there are of course those songs...Melnick demonstrates an affinity for melody and old-fashioned showmanship that link him to his grandfather, Richard Rodgers..."- Matthew Murray, Talkin' Broadway.com "...with a drop-dead funny book and shamefully silly lyrics by Christopher Durang and lethally catchy music by Peter Melnick. A Drift In Macao lovingly parodies the Hollywood film noir classics of the 1940's and 50's..." - Michael Dale, Broadwayworld.com

Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them - And Other Political Plays (Paperback): Christopher Durang Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them - And Other Political Plays (Paperback)
Christopher Durang
R399 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R63 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christopher Durang has been called Jonathan Swift's nicer, younger brother (The New York Observer). His plays are known for containing hilarity at every turn and revealing social commentary in every corner. Now collected in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them and Other Political Plays are Durang's most revealing political and social satires. Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them tells the story of a young woman in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father's hobby of butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Does her mother go to the theater frequently to seek mental escape, or is she just insane? Add in a minister who directs porno, and a ladylike operative whose underwear just won't stay up, and this black comedy will make us laugh all the way to the waterboarding room. "[Durang's] funniest play in years. A play that equals his early hits." --John Simon, Bloomberg "Comedic napalm, something like a cross between The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Dr. Strangelove. Durang has now joined ranks with Dario Fo. Durang is getting a lot off his chest, and off ours. . . unnervingly true and cathartic. --Bob Verini, Variety

American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism - Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and... American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism - Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Hardcover)
Neil Labute, Kia Corthron; Volume editing by Allan Havis; Theresa Rebeck, Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, …
R3,934 R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Save R265 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This powerful anthology brings together reflective and raw plays by American playwrights surrounding the psychic and political boundaries of the many faces and shadows of terrorism. Allan Havis's introduction addresses a variety of terrorism cases from the last 25 years, examines several theories of the root causes of modern terrors, and underscores how theatre forms a unique contour to social and philosophical thought on terrorism. With a foreword from Robert Brustein, the anthology features: Break of Noon by Neil LaBute 7/11 by Kia Corthron Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros Columbinus by PJ Paparelli and Stephen Karam Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang

Miss Witherspoon and Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (Paperback): Christopher Durang Miss Witherspoon and Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (Paperback)
Christopher Durang
R347 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R55 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You", returns to the scene of his prime with two raucous new plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In "Miss Witherspoon"--named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by both "Time" and "Newsday"--Veronica, a recent suicide whose cantankerous attitude has not improved in the afterlife, discovers that the one thing worse than the world she left behind is having to go back for seconds. Ordered to cleanse her "brown tweedy aura, " Veronica resists being reincarnated (as a trailer-trash teen or an overexcited Golden Retriever), only to find that she may be mankind's last, best hope for survival. In "Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge", a sassy ghost once again attempts to shake Scrooge from his holiday humbug, but the whole family-friendly affair is deliciously derailed by Mrs. Cratchit's drunken insistence on stepping out of her miserable, treacly role. Morals are subverted, starving yet plucky children sing carols, and somebody's goose is cooked as Durang lovingly skewers "A Christmas Carol", "It's a Wonderful Life", and many more to create a brand-new, cracked Christmas classic.

A History of the American Film (Paperback): Christopher Durang A History of the American Film (Paperback)
Christopher Durang; Mel Marvin
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Musical / 9m, 6f / Various Sets A hilarious take off on American films, especially from the 1930s through the 1970s. The principals play a variety of characters. There is a Cagney Bogart Dean Brando type-- and a Fonda Stewart Peck Perkins type. The women, too, are types-- basically Bette Davis, Loretta Young and Eve Arden. The parts they play are wild parodies from many Hollywood genres; a silent tearjerker, slum idyll, gangster epic, courtroom melodrama, chain gang social justice thriller, screwball comedy, Busby Berkeley backstage musical, war propaganda canteen musical-- not to forget "Casablanca," "Citizen Kane" and a variety of minor genres. "Christopher Durang has written one of the funniest, zaniest, most entertaining plays of the last decade...What we see is the American way of life reflected through a distortion mirror...It's true that Durang has serious points to make...but this is no message play, thank goodness. Most everything in it is pure, unadulterated, uproarious fun.... Durang's] witty comedy about the movies is a splendid, constantly surprising treat." - Stanley Eichelbaum, San Francisco Examiner "A grand popular entertainment. A significant act of film criticism as well as wise social commentary. Mr. Durang has the waggishness of four Marxes and the malice of Jonathan Swift. Through the history of the American film, we see a history of America - the turn from patriotism to cynicism, from optimism to sensationalism...The clown-sharp company of comic actors strikes precisely the correct stance - total conviction and not camp...A History of the American Film is an A-movie, a glorious montage of myth-America. - Mel Gussow, The New York Times

Christopher Durang Explains it All for You - Six Plays (Paperback, 1st Evergreen ed): Christopher Durang Christopher Durang Explains it All for You - Six Plays (Paperback, 1st Evergreen ed)
Christopher Durang
R442 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R65 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Paperback): Christopher Durang Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Paperback)
Christopher Durang
R402 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R70 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 2013 Tony Award(R) for Best Play Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Play Winner of the Drama League Award for Best Production of a Play Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production Winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play Nominated for six Tony Awards(R), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike. A weekend of rivalry, regret, and raucousness begins!

Baby with the Bathwater / Laughing Wild - Two Plays (Paperback, 1st ed): Christopher Durang Baby with the Bathwater / Laughing Wild - Two Plays (Paperback, 1st ed)
Christopher Durang
R412 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R68 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Laughing wild amid severest woe" perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate cliches of self-affirmation he learns at his "per-sonality workshop," they run the gamut of everyday life's small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park.

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