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“I am a
thirty-three-year-old man applying for a job as an
 elf.”
WHY TORTURE IS
WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
by Christopher Durang
Directed by Daniel Henning
West Coast Premiere
January 30 – March 14, 2010
THE STELLA ADLER THEATRE
6773 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Our “Poet Laureate of the Absurd”, Christopher Durang
turns political humor upside down with this raucous and
provocative satire about America’s growing homeland
“insecurity.” A young woman is suddenly in crisis: Is
her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a
terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father’s hobby
of butterfly collecting really a cover for his
involvement in a shadow government? Why does her mother
enjoy going to the theatre so much? Does she seek mental
escape, or is she insane? Honing in on our private
terrors both at home and abroad, Durang oddly relieves
our fears in this black comedy for an era of yellow,
orange and red alerts. Don’t miss the West Coast
Premiere of this hilarious and sometimes disturbing new
work which recently extended with rave reviews at the
Public Theater in New York.
“Is there a living playwright more willing to take on
the big-picture questions with such
unwavering trust in the power of the truly silly?” —NY
Newsday
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