Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stop Making Sense--Somerville Theater...
...Theater...
...Hasty Pudding Theater...
Which brings us to his latest offering, in which the prayers of his audiences are answered with a resounding negation. Mrs. Sorken Presents, presented by the A.R.T. at the Hasty Pudding Theater as part of the New Stages series, is, Durang's first new produced work since his autobiographical Marriage of Bette and Boo closed in New York last year. Unfortunately, he has left behind the rich vein of cultural and personal material he has tapped for ten years, and instead turned to parody and cheap laughs, quite appropriate, at least, for the Pudding stage...
...evening consists of three one-act parodies of other playwrights, introduced by a Mrs. Sorken, a batty theater-party lady with a happy grin and the same strange power of mental disassociation seen in Sister Mary Ignatius; that Mrs. Sorken is portrayed by Elizabeth Franz (who also created the part of Sister Mary) makes the resemblance inevitable. But while Sister Mary expressed Durang's rage about life, God and the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, all Franz can portray here is his annoyance with the modern theater, which is certainly interesting but not worth three ten-minute monologues...