Baby with the bathwater, and, Laughing wild

In Laughing wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his "personality workshop," they run the gamut of everyday life's small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park. Daisy, of Baby with the bathwater, struggles with a singular problem: his parents, too polite to discuss sex, assumed at his birth he was the girl they'd always wanted. Eleven years of wearing dresses did very little for his self-image, but Durang turns his search for identity into a wild allegory of society's willful blindness toward almost any disturbing truth.