Laughing Wild
Laughing Wild
Author: Christopher Durang (January 2, 1949-Present)
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Time and Place Written: United States, 1987
Date of Publication: 1988
Tone: Satire
Setting: Midsummer afternoon, my therapist’s room
Opening: October 23, 1987 Christopher Durang
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, the only child of Patricia Elizabeth and Francis Durang, Jr. He grew up in Berkeley Heights. His was raised in Catholics and attended Catholic schools as a child, these schools were the Our Lady of Peace School in New Providence, New Jersey and the Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey. In early childhood, his parents had problems of having more children because of incompatible blood, which leads his mother to become depressed and his father became an alcoholic. He majored in English at Harvard and studied playwright at Yale School of Drama. Durang performed with E. Katherine Kerr in the N.Y. premiere of Laughing Wild. He is also the member of the Dramatists Guild Council.
OBJECTIVE/OBSTACLE (+VERBS)
O/O I want to CONVINCE the therapist that I am perfectly normal, but it’s hard because I actually hit someone in the supermarket.
I want to COMPLAIN, CONVINCE, PURSUADE, CHRITICIZE, DENY***
O/O I WANT validation that some people are so hard to deal with, but it’s hard because people are insensitive and stupid.
I WANT TO CONVINCE MY THERAPIST. I WANT VALIDATIONS FROM HER.
MONOLOGUE WITH LABAN EFFORTS:
I WANT TO CONVINCE MY THERAPIST
[PRESS] And then what would I do? And so then I started to cry out of frustration, quietly, so as not to disturb anyone, and still, even though I was softly sobbing, this stupid person didn’t grasp that I needed to get by them to reach the goddam tuna fish
[WRING] People are so insensitive, I just hate them, and so I reached over with my fist, and I brought it down real hard on his head and I screamed: ‘Would you kindly move, asshole!!!’[FLOAT] I couldn’t imagine making use of the tuna
Author: Christopher Durang (January 2, 1949-Present)
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Time and Place Written: United States, 1987
Date of Publication: 1988
Tone: Satire
Setting: Midsummer afternoon, my therapist’s room
Opening: October 23, 1987 Christopher Durang
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, the only child of Patricia Elizabeth and Francis Durang, Jr. He grew up in Berkeley Heights. His was raised in Catholics and attended Catholic schools as a child, these schools were the Our Lady of Peace School in New Providence, New Jersey and the Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey. In early childhood, his parents had problems of having more children because of incompatible blood, which leads his mother to become depressed and his father became an alcoholic. He majored in English at Harvard and studied playwright at Yale School of Drama. Durang performed with E. Katherine Kerr in the N.Y. premiere of Laughing Wild. He is also the member of the Dramatists Guild Council.
OBJECTIVE/OBSTACLE (+VERBS)
O/O I want to CONVINCE the therapist that I am perfectly normal, but it’s hard because I actually hit someone in the supermarket.
I want to COMPLAIN, CONVINCE, PURSUADE, CHRITICIZE, DENY***
O/O I WANT validation that some people are so hard to deal with, but it’s hard because people are insensitive and stupid.
I WANT TO CONVINCE MY THERAPIST. I WANT VALIDATIONS FROM HER.
MONOLOGUE WITH LABAN EFFORTS:
I WANT TO CONVINCE MY THERAPIST
[PRESS] And then what would I do? And so then I started to cry out of frustration, quietly, so as not to disturb anyone, and still, even though I was softly sobbing, this stupid person didn’t grasp that I needed to get by them to reach the goddam tuna fish
[WRING] People are so insensitive, I just hate them, and so I reached over with my fist, and I brought it down real hard on his head and I screamed: ‘Would you kindly move, asshole!!!’[FLOAT] I couldn’t imagine making use of the tuna