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Interviews,
Articles
& Essays
Interviews
Articles
Essays
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Regarding Issues of
Updating Some of My Plays
(by Durang)
Many of my plays have
references to popular culture and personalities from the period in
which they are written. And as time has gone by, some of these
references seem dated or aren’t recognized by current audiences.
And I’ve been asked from time to
time to “update” these references so the plays seem more current.
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The Supreme Court
(by Durang)
In the Man’s monologue in Laughing Wild he makes critical and upset remarks about the Supreme Court case from 1986 called Bowers v. Hardwick. This case was triggered by a policeman entering the private home of a man in Georgia, by mistake, and finding him and another man having consensual sex, and arresting them both under the often overlooked anti-sodomy laws in Georgia. The court at that time ruled, 5-4,...
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Comparing
John Guare and Christopher Durang (by Steve Vineberg)
John Guare and Christopher Durang fly ~ roughly ~ side by side. They
are our two looniest geniuses. And the unpredictability of their best
work, its refusal to ring familiar bells for audiences and critics and
academics, must be at least part of the reason why, though Guare has
been writing for the stage for three decades and Durang for two, they
haven’t received anything like the serious attention they merit.
Perhaps it’s also because they work almost exclusively in the realm of
comedy.
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