LAUGHING WILD - Contemporary

Laughing Wild is a 1987 play written by Christopher Durang. It is a provocative and funny study about the perils and stresses of modern life in urban America.

This show is written for one Male (Actor) and one Female (Actress), each having their own monolgue and a playlet.

In the first section (Laughing Wild); the female who plays the 'Woman', 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 she also tells the audience her troubles with a taxi driver, and about a stay in a mental institution, and about joining AA for companionship but then attempting suicide… she’s smart and makes interesting comments, but she’s also unbalanced and a bit scary as we get to know her better.

In the second section (Seeking Wild); the Male who plays the 'Man', is giving a speech about positive thinking, but keeps spiraling into negativity. The Man is smart, but has trouble maintaining his positive attitude, his thoughts keep spiraling off into fears and irritations and angers at injustice. He finds other people difficult, and tells us of a strange woman he met at the tuna fish aisle in the supermarket who attacked him for no discernible reason. He tries to think of ways he might have acted differently so she wouldn’t have hit him, but he’s not too convinced these other ways would have worked. He also tells us about his job at a magazine, and about his bisexuality, which he brings up kind of by accident.

In the third piece (Dreaming Wild); The two then have an hilarious playlet which brings them together.

First they re-create their scene in the supermarket, trying out different scenarios of how else they might have behaved – though all the scenarios end badly. They then tell the audience their dreams that they've been having some of which seem to overlap on the other persons dream.

SOURCE: http://www.christopherdurang.com/FullLaughing.htm

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