Laughing Wild

Laughing Wild is a 1987 play written by Christopher Durang.

The show is written for one actor and one actress. The woman's character is emotional and unstable, and talks about hitting someone in the supermarket who wouldn't get out of the way of the tuna fish she wanted to buy. The man's character is giving a speech about positive thinking, but keeps spiraling into negativity. He also, it turns out, is the man the woman hit in the supermarket. The show consists of two 30-minute monologues (and then a 30 minute second act, some of it monologue, some of it scenes between the two characters).

The characters do not have official names.

The original off-Broadway production featured Durang and E. Katherine Kerr. In the Los Angeles production starred Durang and Jean Smart, later replaced by Christine Ebersole and Grant Shaud.

In 2005, Boston's Huntington Theatre revived the play with Durang (again) and Debra Monk.

External links

Full Length Plays: Laughing Wild at Christopher Durang

Works by Christopher Durang

Plays	Titanic (1974) The Nature and Purpose of the Universe (1975) The Vietnamization of New Jersey (1977) A History of the American Film (1978) 'Dentity Crisis (1978) Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (1979) The Actor's Nightmare (1981) Beyond Therapy (1981) Baby With the Bathwater (1983) The Marriage of Bette and Boo (1985) Laughing Wild (1987) Sex and Longing (1996) Betty's Summer Vacation (1999) Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (2002) Miss Witherspoon (2005) Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (2009) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2012)

Related articles	Beyond Therapy (1987 film) Sister Mary Explains It All (2001 film)

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