Desire, Desire, Desire: Christopher Durang’s Parody of the North-American Theater
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.91-109Keywords:
North-American theater, one-act play, intertextuality, parody, A Streetcar named desire, Cat on a hot tin roofAbstract
The one-act play Desire, desire, desire (1995), by Christopher Durang, parodies a number of North-American plays, some of them considered classics such as A streetcar named desire and Cat on a hot tin roof, by Tennessee Williams, and other well-known, such as The iceman cometh, by Eugene O’Neill, Night, mother, by Marsha Norman, Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet, and Harvey, by Mary Chase. All of these plays have been adapted to the big screen and are part, to a lesser or greater extent, of people’s cultural repertoire. Based on bibliography that deals with intertextuality and parody, we sought to show how Durang develops his parody and how his play responds to relevant discussions of the end of 20th century, not brought into light still incipient in the previous decades in which the plays and films were created.
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