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...inception of his play writing interest and the complaints his work has received over the years. He talked about his latest project, “Adrift in Macao,” a film noir parody, and his squabble with famed director Robert Altman, calling his film adaptation of Durang??s “Beyond Therapy,” “ghastly” and “really awful.” Durang also provided insight into his personal writing style and gave aspiring writers in the audience a tip.“An awful...
...just thought everyone else had come to that conclusion by now,” he says, repeating his surprise that people find his work controversial. “But I was wrong.” A ROUGH PERIODAside from his brief stint as the campus antichrist, Durang??s Harvard days were typical for a sensitive campus undergraduate: he was stressed-out and depressed.“I kind of went through a bit of a depression at Harvard,” he recalls. “I went through a period of losing self confidence...
...great iconoclast writers of his generation,” said Robert E. Woodruff, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater. “I think his humor is biting. It’s social, it’s political, truly an American voice.” Durang??s most popular plays include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You” and “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” both winners of the prestigious Obie awards, the Off-Broadway Theater Awards bestowed by The Village Voice. The Harvard theater...
...Vietnamization of New Jersey is lots of sound and fury, but the comedy and even the emotion isn’t in the chaos, it’s in the occasional clever lines surrounding it. The shouts of Toder and others certainly bring energy, but they spark less of Durang??s inspired lunacy and more memories of relatives picking awkward fights at Thanksgiving. The gunshots, yells, and moans of pain become something the viewer has to sit through in order to hear Et’s hilarious school play on American history (which includes such roles...
This is a typical scene from The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Christopher Durang??s political and cultural satire of American morals and hypocrisy. The plot hardly matters, but goes something like this: Davey comes home from the war to his New Jersey parents, brother, and housekeeper, surprising them by bringing along his blind Vietnamese wife, Liat. No sooner does the family adjust to her presence and Davey’s repudiation of America than it is revealed that Davey’s father has been unemployed for five months and the family’s belongings have been...