Duranged Nights
June 11 – 26
Duranged Nights
For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
The Actor’s Nightmare
By Christopher Durang
For just a few weeks, the Mobtown Players will descend into hilarious dysfunction and absurd drama. No, it’s not time for the monthly board meeting; the turmoil erupts on stage with the Mob’s production of “Duranged Nights,” an evening of two sharp one-acts by Christopher Durang, master of outrageously absurd comedy.
The evening includes two of Durang’s best-known short plays, each featuring dark humor, pointed dialogue and biting satire. The show runs June 11 through 26 with performances Friday and Saturdays at 8 pm. There will be a single matinee on Sunday, June 13, at 6 pm, as well as a special Thursday night performance on June 24 at 8 pm.
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For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
from Durang.com—In this parody of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, Amanda is frustrated with her over-sensitive, hypochondriac son named Lawrence. Lawrence refuses to leave the house or get a job, he’s too shy to ever meet anyone, and he spends all his time playing with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Lawrence’s more regular brother Tom brings home a “feminine caller” from the warehouse, and Lawrence is overwhelmed by the butch girl Ginny who is deaf and shouts all the time. Ginny and Lawrence eventually hit it off, sort of, as she teaches him how to swagger and to talk about baseball in a loud voice. But then she leaves, Tom goes off to the movies (where he has a tendency to meet and bring home sailors who have missed their boat), and Amanda is stuck forever with hopeless Lawrence.
The Actor’s Nightmare
from Dramatist Play Services—Having casually wandered onstage, understudy George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and that he must replace him immediately. Unfortunately, no one is sure what play is being performed, and George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man forAll Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers.Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner’s axe instead sends poor George to oblivion—denying him a well-earned curtain call.
In this parody of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, we find Amanda, the quintessential Southern woman, preparing for a very special evening. Her son Tom is bringing home a young woman for his reclusive brother Lawrence to meet. But much to Amanda’s dismay, Lawrence would rather play with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers.
Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm, Sunday 6/13 at 6pm, and Thursday 6/24 at 8pm. All Tickets $15 General Admission, $12 Students and Seniors. Tickets are available at the door or through Brown Paper Tickets. We are sorry, but we cannot accept credit cards at the door.
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For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls Directed by Caitlin Bouxsein Actors: |
The Actor’s Nightmare Directed by Caitlin Bouxsein
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