Laughing Wild (loopy satire)
By Christopher
Durang
Director: Beth Craven
October 22 – November
13
Oct 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 and Nov 4, 5, 6, 7, 12
and 13 soldout
Thur-Sat 8:00; Sun 2:00
$20 gen; $18 seniors and students
Special Events
• Opening Night
Gala,
Oct. 22, 7:00pm
Join us for a pre-show wine and hors d’oeuvres
gala! Sponsored by McNear’s Restaurant and
the Mystic Theater (add $10 to regular admission
price)
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• Post-Show Wine
and Chamber Chat, Oct. 23
Enjoy a glass of wine while visiting with the cast
and crew of Laughing Wild (no extra charge)
• Tuna Thursdays
Oct. 28 and Nov. 4
Bring a can of tuna for the food bank and pay what
you can!
• Halloween
Party! Oct. 30 Join us for a
hilarious Halloween! Win a prize for Scariest Laugh
or Best Costume. Trick-or-treat bags for all. (no
extra charge)
Provocative, inventive, and very funny.
“MAN PUMMELED IN SUPERMARKET OVER CAN OF TUNA.” This event is the jumping off point used by the playwright to examine the perils of modern life in urban America.
Starting with two monologues, each recounting the incident from different perspectives, Durang smoothly melds the two into a graceful pas de deux as the two characters invade one another’s dreams. This is a laugh-out-loud, “that is so true” comedy for the 21 st century.
"It's hard to imagine anyone who would not find something amusing in 'Laughing Wild' ... It's good. Go see it." - Katie Watts, Argus Courier, October 27, 2004
"There is freshness in Durang’s comic lines that are at once outrageous and true...Jorgensen and Craven are fantastic comic actors and must have tapped into a little of their own inner madness in order to get the tremendous energy to play these characters." - Reviewed by David Kashimba
`LAUGHING' AS WILD, FUNNY AS
IT GETS, Press
Democrat, October 29, 2004, Dan Taylor
The show opens with Jorgensen performing a monologue
that's legendary in theater circles and often excerpted
by auditioning actresses hoping to win a role....Jorgenson's
incredibly flexible facial expressions and constantly
changing posture -- first lounging, then lunging
-- make the stories she tells easy to picture....Following
that, John Craven seizes the stage with a performance
so soft-spoken and mellow that it's a shock by comparison.
In the end ... one thing is clear: This is essentially what theater is all about. Not just sets, props or costumes, although there are some. It's about actors creating whole worlds with their acting.
"Playwright Christopher Durang is one of the funniest scribes in contemporary American drama....Durang's images and insights send you reeling into a strange existential void then snag you at the last minute and pull you back to a more reasonable - though, by no means 'normal'- reality." - PetalumaFocus.com
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