Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
Christopher Durang
[This was] back in the '50s, pre-talk shows,.. There was not a lot of discussion about grieving. I think my parents had a lot of unexpressed grief. There was an underlying sadness around that permeated.
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It was like... Mad magazine
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Miss Witherspoon
I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius,.. But I believed everything my teachers and many in my family said.
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[It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine.] You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell,.. That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.
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