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Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater : Two Plays by Christopher Durang is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater : Two Plays about?

A pair of plays from the comic genius who gave us the Tony Award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike . Baby and the Bathwater follows its main character from infancy to adulthood, in a confusing search for identity after an unusual upbringing. In Laughing Wild , two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his "personality workshop," they run the gamut of everyday life's small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park. The fiercely ironic dark comedy of Christopher Durang can be perfectly described by the quotation—by Thomas Gray via Samuel Beckett—that inspired one of these play's titles: "Laughing wild amid severest woe." "One of the funniest dramatists alive, and one of the most sharply satiric."— The New Yorker

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Christopher Durang
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780802131300
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Drama, Literary Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.01 / 5 (272 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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