since his days at Yale Drama School where he wrote with his friend and fellow student, Wendy Wasserstein. These short plays offer a slant on the way we live and act with each other. They’re suffused with a dark comedy, but there’s much for all of us here—at times perverse and bizarre, at times poignant—but always resonant with ideas and references to Eugene O’Neil, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet and other geniuses of the theater. Even when Durang does surreal takes on well known classics, such as The Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire, there is a brilliant sense of serving the original. There’s also a bit of the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen and Monty Python in a wonderfully chaotic melange.

The plays all begin and end with human connection—while individually striving, we all have to connect with each other:  A daffy woman speaking about the etymology and enchantment of theater; a take on A Streetcar Named Desire where characters from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  turn up in a version of The Glass Menagerie in which ‘Laura’ who played with glass figurines becomes ‘Lawrence’ who collects glass swizzle sticks; ‘Debbie’ who speaks as a Valley Girl involved with Jesus in the “0000” century; a young woman whose mother says she invented cheese and whose brother is also her father, grandfather and the French lover of her mother; a funeral at which a mourner discombombulates the widow.  Mostly weird, funny and fantastic!

This performance features adult language and themes 

CAST:
Tell Schreiber
Brian Danzig
Charlie Hamilton
Adam Holliday
Pat Selby
Julia Brunzell
Lara Harlan
Anne Wilkinson
Shayla Keating

Costume consultant
Maria-Elena Baker