Durang/Durang

"MRS. SORKEN, a middle-aged suburban matron is scheduled to give a lecture on the meaning of theatre, but has lost her notes. Relying on memory, her comments are dotty, but definitely endearing. (1 woman.) FOR WHOM THE SOUTHERN BELLE TOLLS. In this parody of The Glass Menagerie, the fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hypersensitive, hypochondriacal son, Lawrence, for 'the feminine caller.' Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with 'charm and vivacity,' but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody. (2 men, 2 women.) A STYE OF THE EYE. In this parody of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, cowboy Jake is a rage-oholic who has probably killed his wife, Beth (played by a male).^ Ma, his feisty, no-nonsense mother with a bad memory, thinks Beth 'deserved' it and wishes her own husband were dead (he already is). Jake, also schizoid, becomes his own "good brother Frankie" and goes to find Beth's family. Beth shows up, not de