Word: durang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHRISTOPHER DURANG...
Christopher Durang, 28, is a grandchild of the movie age, and his play, A History of the American Film, is a comic memorial to our movie mania. In a little over two hours, Durang recomposes America's entire cinematic history, from Orphans of the Storm to The Exorcist, including everything in between, from the screwball comedies of the '30s to Elizabeth Taylor screaming at Richard Burton in the '60s. In Durang's hands the familiar images always take an unexpected turn, however, and he proves that there is nothing so funny as the cliche...
Somewhere about 1942, for example, the play stops at Now, Voyager and the famous love scene in which Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes and hands one to Bette Davis. Durang's Henreid standin, a duplicate of double-breasted elegance, suavely does the same, but his Bette Davis is hilariously different. "I'm sorry," she says, "I don't smoke." The vision" of Henreid nervously puffing two cigarettes is a small jewel of farce...
...spring, playgoers in three cities will have had a chance to hear Durang's words. The play had its premiere at the Hartford Stage Com pany in March. A totally different pro duction, with a separate cast and an other director, was unveiled at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles last month; even while that is still running, a third, also different version will open this week at Washington's Arena Stage...
...Nature and Purpose of the Universe by Chris Durang '71 (Coffeehouse Cabaret). Harvard Cabaret, Currier House, 10. 11:30, March 3 and 4, .50 food minimum...